,RIDER'S |, GLADIOLUS 
Rider's Gladiolus 
FRIENDSHIP—A new introduction. Beautiful soft pink florets 
with cream yellow throats outlined in lavender. 
LADY JANE—An excellent glad. Opens 4 or 5 blooms at once on tall, straight 
spikes. Creamy yellow with ruffled edges. 
VALERIA—Outstanding new introduction of soft scarlet flushed with salmon, 
large substantial blooms are superb for cutting. 
SNOW PRINCESS—Our favorite white glad. Snow white florets, several open at 
once, have faint pink etching around edges. A strong grower. 
EVANGELINE—Outstanding new glad. Tall straight bloomstalks. Clear pink 
color, excellent form. A show table glad of superior merit. 
GARDENIA—One of the best white varieties we know. A strong grower, has tall 
spikes with many blooms open at once. 
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN—Beautiful, clear lavender rose. Opens 
ruffled blooms with beautiful form. Everyone will love this glad. 
GLADIOLUS PRICES 
$6.50; No. 2 bulb size—8c each, 3 for 20c, 10 for 65c, 100 for 
RAINBOW MIXTURE 
All our mixtures are hand mixed and guaranteed to contain 
50 for $1.00, 100 for $1.75. All bulbs guaranteed to bloom. 
NAMED VARIETIES, No. 1 bulbs—10c each, 3 for 25c, 10 for 75c, 100 for 
or more varieties, No. 1 bulbs—10 for 50c, 50 for $2.25, 100 for $4.25; 
No. 2 size bulbs—10 for 40c, 50 for $1.75, 100 for $3.00: No. 3 bulbs— 
Our bulbs are raised on new land each year, carefully 
cleaned and graded and stored in our modern storage at 
correct humidity and temperature—big plump healthy 
bulbs that will make your garden a success. 
SPOTLIGHT—Outstanding new variety that has been 
proclaimed the Queen of the Yellows. Our choice of 
all glads for striking beauty. Produces massive spikes 
of clear yellow florets with a brilliant spot of rich car- 
mine in the throat. Spotlight combines quality, size, 
vigor and freedom from diseases into a glad that is 
at the top of anyone's list. 
KING LEAR—Very early, clear deep, purple, with silver 
line on edge of all petals. Very large, waved and 
ruffled. 
MARGARET FULTON—An early salmon pink variety 
that is well known and very prolific and free from 
disease. A sure glad for producing good flowers. 
REWI FALLEW—Enormous blooms of dark red. Big 
flower heads resembling canna blooms. A striking 
glad. 
HOPMANS GLORY—An excellent yellow. Clear yellow 
on tall straight stem. Opens 3 or 4 blooms at a time. 
RED CHERRY—One of the top notch new glads. Opens 
to soft scarlet. Large blooms. Excellent cut flower 
variety. 
DEBONAIR—Tall growing late WEE CORNER 
variety. Light shell pink COLLECTION 
flecked with orange red. NO. 14 
Very healthy variety. For those of you with 
just a small spot for 
SPIC and SPAN—Our favorite leds wo nile on 
glad. Large straight spikes. lection of 12 No. 1 
Shell pink, flecked with dark- Bulbs. containing 6 or 
er streaks and crinkled edges. 60c. 
A Treasure Chest of Beauty 
To bring you a treasure chest of glad beauty 
we have assembled the following aristocrats of 
the gladiolus family. Many of these varieties 
are too scarce to offer in quantity so we bring 
them to you in this outstanding variety collection 
A collection of 30 big No. 1 bulbs, a complete color 
range—EDITH CAVE COLE, PHANTOM BEAUTY, 
PANDORA, PERDITA, PURPLE SUPREME, POETS 
DREAM, HOPMANS GLORY, BUCKEYE BRONZE, 
BURMA, SPIC AND SPAN, ANNA MAY, GOLD 
DUST, MONSOER, ORANGE GOLD, SPOTLIGHT. 
30 No. 1 Bulbs, 2 each of above varieties, Only 
$2.75. 
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$5.00. 
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THE RIDER NURSERIES, Farmington, lowa 
