Greetings... 
I want to thank the thousands of 
my customers who give us so many 
fine orders every year. We strive to 
merit this patronage and hope we do 
by giving good bulbs, good service and 
the best varieties we can find. This 
year we have the finest looking bulbs 
we ever had and the largest selection 
of really topnotch varieties. 
Tho glads are the most popular 
flowers grown there still should be ten 
times as many people raising them as 
there are. If people only realized how 
easy they are to grow and what great 
satisfaction and pleasure they give 
there would be many times as many 
used as at present. You would be amazed at the number of letters I get from people 
telling of the immense happiness glads have given them and the pleasure they have 
had in giving blooms to shut-ins and to their churches whereby they made many more 
people happy. One lady said she paid only a few dollars for the bulbs but she got a 
million dollars worth of happiness from the blooms. 
Glads are easy to grow and they do not require much space. Even 25 bulbs will give 
you a lot of pleasure and most anyone can find room for that many. 
Let’s make this a glad year and then write me next fall if youare not pleased I brought 
glads to your attention. Many have thanked me from the bottom of their hearts for 
getting them interested in glads. 
SPECIAL to BREEDERS 
We are always on the lookout for out- 
standing seedlings. It isn’t possible for us 
to visit all the breeders who have good 
seedlings so we are asking for bulbs for 
trial in our Trial Grounds. We operate 
one of the largest and best Trial Grounds 
in the country. Last year we tested several 
hundred seedlings from many hybridizers 
and this year shall have more. All bulbs 
and increase will be returned to the 
owners if requested. 
So if you think you have a world beater 
send us 5 or 6 or more bulbs and we will 
evaluate them at blooming time. 
Tom Manley (right) who is associated 
with me is in charge of production, breeding, 
trial grounds and the show garden and other 
things—a general factotum. 
Yours for a happy GLAD season. 
ELMER GOVE 
Apostle of Beauty 
