Greetings To Friends and Customers 
As we prepare this, our ninth catalogue of our bulbs, seeds, etc., 
we wish to extend greetings to our friends and customers and to thank 
them for their patronage of other years. We have tried to supply first 
class bulbs at all times, and have also tried to be generous in filling your 
orders. We have an exceptionally fine large crop of bulbs this year, and 
our bulbs seem to be very healthy and strong. 
We have also grown an extra fine crop of bulbs of the “small” or 
Miniature Gladiolus, probably over a hundred varieties, and we will list 
something over sixty varieties in this years’ catalogue. Kindly note our 
“Bulblet Specials” in these small varieties. 
We had a very nice group of seedlings come into bloom this season 
and were not disturbed by a flood this year. It was a good growing 
season, and we had very good luck with our seed beds too. We believe we 
harvested over twenty-five thousand new seedlings for 1955 blooming. 
We surely hope we can find some outstanding numbers next season. Our 
seed crop grew very well, and we have another large list of crosses in 
this catalogue, offering our surplus for sale. 
We hope you will stop and visit our garden next summer when the 
Glads are blooming. Drive right into the Nursery and our attendants will 
be glad to show you around the garden. 
TERMS OF SALE 
All retail orders will be prepaid to your address, providing they 
amount to $3 or more, and are accompanied by remittance for the full 
amount. We will include some extra bulbs with every order, to enable our 
customers to see something new or different, and in many cases send out 
some of our seedlings as extras, if the customer mentions it. Customers 
in Iowa shouid add the sales tax. Dust your plants, as soon as they have 
three leaves or more, with 5% D.D.T. dust, to prevent damage from thrip, 
and apply it every ten days, or after every heavy rain. If these insects 
are kept off the plants, you should have excellent blooms. Cultivate 
frequently and water plants well if it becomes very dry. Glads appreciate 
plenty of moisture. We label every package we ship out, in fact every 
sack of bulbs bears the name of a glad, except the collection of mixed 
glads, or mixed seedlings. 
