GREE TIN Go 
I take pleasure in presenting my catalog of gladiolus bulbs for 1953 
for your corsideration and to extend thanks and best wishes to my many 
friends and customers for the nice orders sent me in 1952. 
I hope this catalog will be of interest to you and help you to grow 
some of the best spikes you have ever had. I am not going into much 
detail as to our method of growing of what we believe to be as nice 
as any bulbs anywhere. ile have never had a complaint about our bulbs 
or our dealing. ‘Je have had many letters and cards commenting us on 
our bulbs and the splendid results obtained. I believe this speaks for 
its self more than any words I can use. I assure you I appreciate these 
letters and cards. 
I would like to say a few words about our seedlings. we planted about 
2000 seedling bulbs last spring. Nearly all of them bloomed. It was 
quite an experience to go out in the patch in the morning to see what 
had opened up during the night. There were no two alike,some were 
very outstanding, some were worthless, but we selected about 200 to 
try again. We are going to plant more seed than we have ever planted 
sthis spring. J! hope to get something good from them but time will 
tell. I grew some for the second year this season and they did very 
good especially for the adverse weather we had here this scason. 
I will not introduce any unless they prove to be good. It looks like 
2 or 3 of them will be good. 
We sell only youngbulbs grown from bulblets or small planting stock and 
are not robbed of their vitality with fertilizers or over watering. 
T do not condemn fertilizers or watering,some times they are necessary 
but can be over done. . 
OUR, GUARANTER Ye guarantee satisfaction or money back and I mean just 
that. If you are not satisfied, return them and I will cheerfully 
refund your money. We guarantee our bulbs true to name and young healthy 
cwulbs free of thrips. Our bulbs are all treated with Spergon & D.D.T. 
at diging time-and again at cleaning time. 
hile we have not had any complaints about our bulbs, If you should have 
any please let us know. Maybe we can help you. 
We can not guarantee the crop you will harvest as there are too many 
things beyond our control which makes this impossible, nor can we guar— © 
antee bulblets to all grow. Some will germinate nearly 100% but others 
will not. Some times small bulbs will not germinate but not many that 
don't. Varieties that are sports will sometimes revert but not too many, 
We usually put extras anyway so you should get you full amount of blooms. 
