FORWORD 
First, I would like to thank all my friends and customers for their con- 
tinued patronage, and wish you even more successes in 1953 than you en- 
joyed last Season. 
What a short year! Here we are again, with the many beautiful Glad 
Shows and blocms, now a matter of history, and our thoughts turn to the 
purchase of a few different varieties to make it a HH tougher for our Show 
competiors in 1953. What blooms we had last year! Even despite a 34 day 
drought, the bulbs we dug were tremendous. Bulblets and planting stock 
also made heavy growth. 
Again we exhibited at the Rhode Island Gladiolus Society Annual 
Show at Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet Annex, Cranston, 2nd met many of our 
flower friends there. By all means, visit these Shows, and witness the hun- 
dreds of Arrangements on display, many of which you could construct, and 
use on your own tables during the Summer and Fall. The Show is free and 
you will find it an hour well spent. It is one of the outstanding Shows in 
the East. 
The following varieties again won more than their share of Blue Rib- 
bons in 1952 - - AUREOLE, ATOM, BOUTON D’OR, BURMA, CHA- 
MOUNY, CONN, YANKEE, CORONA, DAISY MAE, EVANGELINE, 
PLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, GOLD, KING =DAVID, LEADING 
LADY, MANSOER, MORNING KISS, ORANGE GOLD, PACTOLUS, 
PATROL, PHAROAH, PICARDY, RAVEL, RED CHARM, RED WING 
BEGAL REDS ALMONS (GLORY, SPIG & SPANSSUNSPOT, fly ©: 
Li, WHITE GODDESS, WORLDBEATER, BO-PEEP, 
A great many people visited my fields last Summer, and to those who 
came when I was absent, I apologize. Try me again in August 1953, when 
the Glads, Dahlias, and Seedlings will be at their height. 
JE RMSBOrS SAL 
Please accompany bulb order with check, or money-order. 
Due to mailing costs, no order less than $3.00 please. 
Retail orders prepaid. Wholesale orders sent F. O. B. Peacedale. 
All stock guaranteed true to name, and dusted with D. D. T. & 
Arasan. 
5 or more bulbs at the 10 rate - 25 or more at the 100 rate. 
Where varieties are priced singly, 10 may be purchased at 8 times the 
single price. 
Planting and growing instructions mailed with order. 
Our first planting is made about April 15. Please place your order be- 
fore this date, as some stocks will be depleted thereafter. 
The first three figures following the variety name tells you the floret 
size of this variety. The next two figures tell you the approximate number 
of days required from planting time, until the bloom appears. As for instance 
the variety “GOLD”. 412 - 80. It is in the 400 Class, which means it has 
florets which measure somewhere within a 442 to 5 3/8 inch range. It re- 
quires something like 80 days to bring it into bloom, from planting time. 
FLORET SIZES= 
200 - Florets 2% to 3% inches 
300 - Florets 344 to 43% inches 
400 - Florets 4% to 538 inches 
S00 - Florets 5 1/5 inches and larger 
