No. 2. SMALL AMATEUR COLLECTION: For the party who grows around 500 bulbs. 
2 Each: SIERRA SNOW, FORSYTHIA, STERLING, DAVID WARR, TAHOE, PEACH 
GLOW, RHETT BUTLER and ELMER’S ROSE. 
$3.70 Catalogue Value for $3.00 
No. 3. ADVANCED AMATEUR COLLECTION: For folks who are really bitten by the 
glad bug. 
2 Each: GOLD BOND, RED GLEAM, SHIRLEY IRENE, AYLMER GLORY, LYNNE 
HILL, ORCHID MIST, DAVID WARR, ORCHID SKIES, ROSANNAB and WILD FIRE. 
$6.40 Catalogue Value for $5.50 
No. 4. EXHIBITION COLLECTION: For the connoisseur who is interested in winning 
ribbons and rosettes at the shows. 
2 Each: SIERRA SNOW, PEACH GLOW, DAVID WARR, ROSANNAH, GOLD 
BOND, DOLLY VARDEN, LYNEE HILL, FOREST FIRE, ORCHID MIST and SHIR- 
LEY IRENE. 
$8.70 Catalogue Value for $7.00 
No. 5 EARLY COLLECTION: For those folks who go away to a summer cottage in 
August and want some glads early, and before the regular crop comes along. Many 
will come into flower in 70 days or less from planting. 
2 Each: RHETT BUTLER, STERLING, HENRIETTA, ORCHID MIST, ILA WAL- 
LACE, FLORENCCE NIGHTINGALE, IVY ROBERTSON, BARBARA WARR and JINI 
MARIE. 
$3.40 Catalogue Value for $2.75 
No. 6. “EYE-LEVEL” COLLECTION: For you folks who want the GIANTS. Assuming 
that you are perhaps not over 5’6” tall or even 58” tall, these varieties will grow 
under fairly good culture, an average of 66” tall. 
2 Each: SIERRA SNOW, ROSANNAH, GOLD BOND, ORCHID SKIES, IVY ROBERT- 
SON, STORMY WEATHER, MING YELLOW and FOREST FIRE. 
$6.80 Catalogue Value for $5.50 
With any order for TWO COLLECTIONS, ordered by number, I will include GRATIS 
one bulb or a new variety, with a value of not less than $1.00. My Selection. 
GOOSE GOSLING’S CURIODDITIES 
These Curiodds are a new race of flowers, allied to and derived from the Gladiolus, 
originated in Ludington, Michigan by Lucian Gosling who uses gladiolus mutations to 
create strange new exotic wonders for the gardeners of the nation. 
1955 INTRODUCTIONS 
MANYPETALS 
A deep rose double with flaring florets nodding gracefully on long stems. It is much 
taller than Multipetal, with twelve to fourteen exotic orchid bursts of Burma Rose on 
strong stems from mature bulbs, the multitude of rose red petals so twisted and lascinated 
one cannot tell where one ends and the next begins. Large bulblets often flower the first 
year. There are only fifty bulbs in existence, so order early. 
Any size bulb $5.00 each. Bulblets $1.00 each. 
THE FAIRY GIANT 
(Fairy Dragon & White Dragon) 
And now the giant of the Dragons. Six to eight huge hooded florets, feathered with 
pink on a lavender base, with spurs like needles pointing backward from the hood, and 
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