THE 1953 GLADLAND ACRES CATALOG 
The Gladland Acres catalog is printed long before any others are issued. This is the 
third year in which it will be available for July distribution, so that our readers may use 
it to check prices of the varieties that appeal to them as they see them in the shows or 
in the gardens of their friends. Since it is printed before’ most growers decide on their 
price schedules it is sometimes possible that we may quote a higher price on some 
newer introduction than is later adopted by the originator. Of course in these instances 
we will expect to meet this lower price even though our quotations are based on our 
personal investment costs. This catalog is not a FREE publication except to our customers 
of record, so if you know of any friends whom you think would find our performance 
data valuable, please ask them to enclose 10c with their request for a copy to partially 
cover our cost. It is only by watching every penny that we can continue to bring ou: 
wide variety selection at the very reasonable charges we make for our bulbs 
In presenting our variety list for 1953, it would be very pleasing if we could afford 
the space to give you a word picture of each variety in detail; as each of the varieties 
herein listed, naturally, has some special attribute that is responsible for its appearance 
in our list of offerings. Such a presentation is impossible within the budget limits which 
we can afford for catalog expense. We have given you a complete breakdown by 
color classes and further segregated by floret sizes, and with the information as to 
number of days required to bring into bloom, the average number of buds per spike 
and the average number of florets opening and holding in good condition, together 
with name of originator and year of introduction, you will be able to make intelligent 
selections. As we see them, every variety listed is a superior one in some respect and 
we do not believe that you could pick a poor one from the entire group. 
If you grow for home decoration you will find that the 300 size class (medium size 
florets) together with the small and miniature varieties will actually be more useful than 
those with the giant and large size florets, however there is a thrill in growing these 
new modern giants that will doubtless keep them tops in popularity for a long time. 
QUANTITY DISCOUNTS 
Quantity discounts are 20% from the each price for 5 or more of a single size and 
kind; 36% discount from the each price for 25 or more of a single size and kind. In 
the event that our catalog price is for 5 or more, as for example, 6 small Burma for 
25c, then the 10 rate has already been given and the 25 or more rate would be 20% 
off the catalog rate, giving 83c as the net price of 25 small Burma. ALL TRANSPORTA- 
TION COSTS OF BULBS PURCHASED ON WHICH THE QUANTITY RATES HAVE BEEN 
TAKEN ARE THE EXPENSE OF THE PURCHASER. 
TRANSPORTATION COSTS 
WE pay transportation costs on orders totaling $5.00 or more but only on such items 
of these orders that are figured at the each rate. Orders totaling less than $5.00 will 
be forwarded by parcel post to keep transportation costs to the minimum but the cus- 
tomer will be expected to send us postage expense due us on receipt of parcel. This pay- 
ment may be made in stamps and your package will contain a statement of postage due. 
You will note that we are having to modify our policy of furnishing free mail delivery. 
Margins of profit have been so lessened by rises in all phases of expense, that it is 
necessary that we pass on this parcel post cost to our customers whenever the quantities 
ordered of a single variety to earn our 20% discount on lots of 5 or more, or 36% on 
lots of 250r more. It will not be necessary to send us the exact amount of postage re- 
quired, nor will we send the parcel C.O.D. for the postage due, but we will expect you 
to send us postage stamps to cover the amount due us, which we will show on each 
package as we mail it. To each individual this will be a minor amount, but to us, 
with the hundreds of parcel post shipments this expense totals into the hundreds of 
dollars in a season. 
For your information, weight of bulbs, lightly packed for shipment in frost free 
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