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Our most sincere appreciation to all our fine customers 
for past season orders. They have kept us in the running 
and inspired us to continue the development and intro- 
duction of real quality glads that will be a pleasure for 
you to grow. 
Despite the hot dry summer of 1952 our bulbs are ex- 
ceptionally nice, clean and healthy but we are very short 
on large sizes, so most of our offerings are in medium, small 
and bits. In newer varieties these are the most sought 
sizes anyway. 
For the past four years not a single bulb from any source 
has been brought into our planting, thus eliminating the 
possibility of certain diseases so prevalent in some sections 
of the U. S. today. 
Seedling -|-102 a beautiful light salmon illustrated on 
front cover will be one of our 1954 introductions, a glad we 
are very proud of. A wonderful performer under all con- 
ditions. 
Of our three 1953 releases, two of these are real novelties. 
Prairie Blaze and Pirate Cache, both of which met with 
disaster three summers ago, the planting stock being 
washed out so badly in a heavy storm that we had to 
start all over with blts, from the few large bulbs we had 
in another planting. We are mentioning this in explana- 
tion as to why prices are higher than we would like to 
quote. The stock is quite limited, with many fanciers 
waiting their introduction. 
We grow only our own originations and herein list only 
the more recent of these at retail, so please do not write 
us for any variety not listed. 
All orders are made up and stored in open bags in our 
bulb house the day they are received and acknowledged 
by postal, so if a customer does not receive this acknowl- 
edgement they will know their order has not been received. 
This has never happened to us so far. Please write your 
order plainly, especially your address. 
Wilson originations (86 all told) have won their share of 
top ribbons for the past fourteen years and will continue 
to win for our customers. If you are not already a Wilson 
fan please give our varieties a small trial. 
We are loaded with testimonials from pleased customers 
but have always refrained from using such, though we 
consider them essential in Patent Medicine advertising. 
However, we get a lot of personal pleasure from encourag- 
ing letters from our customers. 
NO ORDERS ACCEPTED UNDER $5.00. 
G. W. WILSON Route 5. Lisbon, Ohio 
