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Fig. 19. LA LUNA 



This is an excellent white variety attractively blotched on the lower seg- 

 ments with maroon. For straightness o£ spike, regularity of form, and 

 clearness of the glistening white color, few varieties excel this one 



F. C. Thomann's 

 ideal is a color that 

 does not fade when 

 the flowers are cut. 

 Most growers 

 agree that clear, 

 decided colors are 

 the best, and the 

 nearer the con- 

 color type the 

 better; G.B.Bab- 

 cock and G. D. 

 Black say that the 

 blotch is very 

 often objection- 

 able. Florists de- 

 mand a light-col- 

 ored bloom, usu- 

 ally because it can 

 be used for a 

 greater variety of 

 purposes; but 

 there seems to be 

 a difference of 

 opinion as to this. 

 E. T. Flanagan 

 says that the 

 darker colors are 

 in demand only 

 when the lighter 

 ones are scarce. 

 J. F. Munsell uses 

 more than one- 

 half red varieties, 

 andH. A. Richard- 

 son finds only from 

 fifteen to twenty 

 per cent as great 

 a demand for the 

 darker colors as for 

 the Hght. Several 

 growers agree that 



