GROFFS EXTRA SELECT PAN-AMERICAN 

 EXPOSITION COLLECTION. 



THE GOLD MEDAL COLLECTION. 



This collection is made up from the choice, new varieties exhibited at 

 Buffalo in 1901, and contains varieties of such high proven quality that 

 no grower, however critical, can wish for better value. 



In its preparation, over 600 named varieties have been discarded, and 

 every desirable section known is represented — Gandavensis, Lemoine, 

 Nanceianus, Blues, and New Hybrids. It contains no Childsi, this sec- 

 tion having been defeated at home in New York by my earliest original 

 work, no part of which enters into the composition of this grand collec- 

 tion — my New Hybrids being of later origin and unknown to commerce. 



In this collection the Whites, Lights, and Yellow shades are of the 

 purest colors obtainable, relieved in many varieties by stains and blotches 

 of most intense and decided contrast. 



The Pinks, Reds, Scarlets, Crimsons, and Cerise shades are of the 

 highest quality, with flowers of the largest size and greatest perfection. 



The New Blues, including tints of Lilac, Heliotrope, and Clematis, 

 were never before offered in mixture. 



All the above are in endless combination, embracing the best produc- 

 tion of the purest and most delicate tints, as well as the most brilliant and 

 striking contrasts of intense and vivid colors, practically unknown com- 

 mercially. 



The flowers are of the largest size in their respective types, the 

 spikes of correct form, with plants of exceptional vigor and vitality. 



This new collection is the best and latest products of years of costly 

 effort and the result of scientific hybridization from the most valuable 

 material the world has known. It is prepared specially with the view of 

 providing the amateur with a typical collection of the Modern Gladiolus. 

 No such was ever before offered, and no better value can be desired. 



Offered in lots of 25, 50, 75 or 100 corms, or upwards. Every collection 

 separately prepared. So great is the diversity of this excellent collec- 

 tion that the purchasers of 1,000 corms will get few duplicates. 



Price per 100, - - - - $15.00. 



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