A 1954 
fd GLADIOLUS SEED AND BULB LIST 
aS S, TERMS 355 
Cash with order, No C.0.D. and no order for less than 42,00 please, 
I give very liberal overcount and extras instead of discounts, All seeds ~ 
and bulbs sent prepaid, All bulbs are guaranteed true to name and free of 
disease and insects, and all seeds are guaranteed strictly hand pollinated, 
If upon receipt of order you are nov entirely satisfied, return same and 
your money will be refunded, Safe delivery of all shipments guaranteed, 
STRAWBERRY RIPPLE 441 (Kelly 1953) 
Light cherry pink with very conspicuous strawberry red blotches on 
lower petals, Florets are ruffled and fluted, of very heavy substance and 
well attached. Opens 6 florets on a strong straight spike of 17 to 19 
totel buds, Bulblet production average, germination good. 
STRAWBERRY RIPPLE is really different. and I am sure will be a worth 
while addition to any garden, a 
PRICHee Hach L $1.50 M $1.00 ‘$6 .75 Bulblets 10 for $1.00 
HAND POLLINATED GLADIOLUS SEEDS 
Gladiolus bulbs are very easy to grow from seed either in the greenhouse 
or in the open ground, and will produce blooms the second year if well grown, 
Generally, blooms from scedling bulbs will average much larger than 
those grown from the same size bulbs from bulblets and every bloom will be 
different from any other in existance, either in color, form of floret, size 
or growth, or in all these characteristics, 
Glad seeds may be planted in the open ground as early in the sprire as 
the soil can be worked. For best results seeds should be spaced about $ inch 
apart in the raw and covered with about $4 inch of soil, Seed beds should be 
kept moist urtil seeds germinate either by frequent watering or by partial 
shading, Shuce may be obtained by the use of lath half«shades, by covering 
the beds with burlap or brush, or any other method that will keep the direct 
rays of the sun from drying out the top half inch of soil. When plants are 
about 1 inch high all shade may be removed but care should be taken that beds 
recieve moisture cnough to keep plants growing at all times. Any fertilizer 
used for growing glad bulbs will do very well for seedlings and in most cases 
may be applied at about the same rate, Bulbs should be dug about the same 
time as bulbs grown from bulblcts, 
Seeds will be sold only in packets containing at loast 40 sceds of one cross. 
PRICH== 50¢ per packet 
(The first named varicty is the secd parent in all crosses) 
Ataturk x Bishops Scopter Ae Be Coutts x Animation 
Ataturk x Knighthood A. Be Coutts x Chief Pontiac 
Aljechin x Blue Lagoon American Beauty x Bishops Scepter 
Aljechin x King David American Beauty x Knighthood 
Aljechin x Phantom Beauty Burma x Pactolus 
Aljechin x Pactolus Burma x Voodoo 
Aristocrat x Firebrand Burma x Knighthood 
Aristocrat x Burma Burma x Lavender Glory 
Alfred Noble x A, B. Coutts Burma x Sherwood 
Animation x Dieppe Burma x Blue Boy 
Animation x Leif Ericsson Bridal Orchid x Gail Ann Page 
Animation x Bittersweet Bridal Orchid x Blue Lagoon 
