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Plant Gladiolus Seed ana propuce NEW VARIETIES 
Last season we offered seeds for the first time 
and we were surprised to find the vast interest 
in growing gladiolus from seed. Our supply was 
rapidly exhausted and we were embarrassed to 
have to refund on so many orders. This season 
we have been fortunate in making our crosses 
early in the season, thus obtaining many plump 
pods of seeds. 
All our crosses have been carefully planned to 
provide the maximum amount of good seedlings. 
Test plantings of these crosses have given us 
many interesting new seedlings which we feel 
will be future Gove introductions. Giant deep 
yellows, huge non-burning reds, spectacular 
blotched and ruffled miniatures were present in 
these crosses. Note that many of these crosses 
have the same varieties as one parent mainly 
because that particular variety has provided 
certain desirable characteristics in its seedlings. 
The crosses are made under controlled con- 
ditions. All plants are emasculated (anthers 
removed) early in the morning to avoid contami- 
nation by pollen carried by birds and insects. 
The petals are removed from the flower also and 
only the stigma remains. Pollination is made 
from freshly collected pollen by experienced plant 
hybridizers on our staff. 
Hybridizing is expensive, thus we have to ask 
a reasonable price for the seed. Our crosses are 
not collected seed from chance crosses with un- 
known parentage but carefully planned and 
executed crosses. 
Once the seed is matured the pods are collected 
and all the plump seeds are removed and cleaned 
In growing glads from seed remember 
that no two seedlings will be alike. You 
can get most any color from any cross. 
Plant the seeds shallow 1-114" deep, like 
any other seed. Since they are rather slow 
in germinating cover them with burlap or 
other material to hold the moisture till the 
seedlings appear. Fertilize lightly and 
frequently with 5 - 10 - 10 and water 
regularly during the growing season. They 
should make small to medium bulbs the 
first year. Some bloom for us here in Ver- 
mont and all will bloom the second year. 
Good culture will produce large bulbs 
especially in the central and southern areas 
of the United States where the season is 
long. Gladiolus are easy to grow from seed, 
try some and get a thrill of having your 
own seedling to name and introduce if 
they are worthy of introduction. If they 
are good we will do it for you and you will 
receive a modest reward for your efforts. 
for sale. Much time is required to check each seed 
to determine that it is plump and viable; all the 
chaff is removed and viable seeds are counted 
and packaged. 
We use the best varieties, new and old, care- 
fully crossed to bring you the finest listing of 
crosses available. 
Wecannot predict what any seed will produce. 
But you will have a wonderful time growing 
your own seedlings, watching each new spike 
unfurl its florets for the first time, hoping that a 
world beater will appear in your patch. 
Grow some seed, become an originator of a 
new variety and everyone will envy you. 
HOW TO ORDER. The seed-bearing parent is 
the first variety mentioned. Canadian and other 
foreign customers do not have to secure a permit 
to import seeds. Crosses are identified by their 
number. Order by number as “1 pkt. of cross 
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SEEDS ARE IN PACKETS, 12 seeds for 35c. 
If you purchase $3.00 worth of seed, select 2 
additional crosses. If your order is for $5.00 or 
more we will give you a bonus seed packet of 
crosses of exceedingly fine new varieties of which 
seed stock is not sufficient for listing or crosses 
that are difficult to make, resulting in a limited 
seed supply. 
COLLECTIONS. For the person who does not 
want to select any certain crosses, we suggest a 
collection. These are of our choosing and will be 
excellent crosses. These are from crosses where 
either insufficient crosses were made to obtain 
enough seed for listing or of crosses which do 
not set large numbers of seed. All collections are 
of the highest quality and represent the best. 
Parentages given on all packets of seeds in 
collections when not selected from those listed 
under number. 
SEED COLLECTION NO. 1 
BEGINNER’S COLLECTION $3.00 
A collection of 10 packets of seed of our selection 
plus a bonus packet containing 100 mixed seeds. 
SEED COLLECTION NO. 2 
AMATEUR’S COLLECTION. $4.00 
A collection of 15 packets of seed of our selection, 
many fine crosses. 
SEED COLLECTION NO. 3 
CONNOISSEUR’S COLLECTION $5.00 
A collection of 20 packets of seed of our finest 
crosses of our selection, many rare varieties, 
crosses of many new varieties and seedlings. 
