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ROCHESTER WHITE AND EUROPA COM- 
PARED. 
Reports from different growers as to 
the success or failure of Europa and 
Rochester White vary little, perhaps 
on account of difference in soil. It 
seems that they are somewhat erratic 
on the same soil. 
In the summer of 1916, Rochester 
White made a sickly growth with me, 
while Europa appeared healthy. In 
1917 Rochester White 'was healthy, while 
Europa was so miserable and sickly, 
making such a strong contrast in ap- 
pearance with sturdy Pendleton grow- 
ing beside it, that I was ashamed to 
have any one see Europa. When it 
came time, however, for the budding 
of Europa, it seemed to experience a 
change of heart, and when the great 
spikes of white were fully opened there 
seemed little left to desire in either 
plant or bloom. Indeed it seemed 
scarcely possible that they could be the 
same plants that a short time before 
looked so disreputable. 
Comparing a single floret of Europa 
with one of Rochester White, a close 
look makes Rochester White the better, 
because there is no tint of color about 
it. Taking a full grown spike of each, 
and Europa has the advantage of a 
large number of blooms open at the 
same time, while the little color in the 
throat is hardly noticed without close 
inspection. I’m not sure whether I 
would fully agree with Editor Cooper 
that I would grow a hundred Europas 
for the sake of one bloom, but I’d come 
pretty near it. It should not be under- 
stood, however, that a number of 
plants must be grown for each spike ; 
every corm planted is sure of a spike 
— at least it’s that way here. 
I would not like to decide which of 
the two Gladioli is better ; there is 
enough difference between them to 
made me unwilling to do without either. 
C. C. Miller. 
VARIETY DOUBLET. 
One of your readers in the October 
issue of The Modern Gladiolus 
Grower wonders how the variety 
Doublet, introduced by us, received its 
name, and says it is a single flowered 
variety. If your reader will please re- 
fer to his files of our catalogues he will 
find that we have not offered the va- 
riety in question in either our 1917 nor 
1916 catalogs. This once beautiful 
double flowered variety began to come 
single about two years ago and, fear- 
ing it might have “ sported ” to a single 
flowered kind, we discontinued offering 
it. However, hoping it might again 
become double flowered, we grew it on 
in a small way for two year’s longer, 
only to find it coming continually 
single. Therefore, it has been finally 
discarded by us the past season and is 
now undoubtedly lost. 
A. E. Kunderd. 
NAMING OF VARIETIES. 
Friend Stalnaker’s efforts to find out 
the origin of varieties of Glads and 
their names leads me to tell something 
of the accidental ways in which nam- 
ing is often done. 
To begin with : I don’t claim to have 
originated anything and about all the 
varieties I have named came from Mr. 
Groff’s remarkable collection of un- 
named bulbs. 
There is a well known horticulturist 
named Burrell and it might be sup- 
posed I named Burrell from him, but I 
didn’t. About ten years ago I found 
among Groff’s seedlings several of one 
sort, which I marked out whenever I 
found it as "Brl,” which meant simply 
"Big Red Lemoine.” So I said I would 
call it Burrell and it has gone far under 
that name. Another, a pale yellow, I 
marked No. 2 M, just as a field number. 
"M” might stand for Maude, a blond 
lady of my acquaintance — so Maude it 
is. 
Another of Groff’s Silver Trophy Sec. 
2, which bloomed late and was very 
stout and of a beautiful light shade re- 
minded me of a very sweet lady (30 
years or so younger than I) who is fat 
and fair, so I named it for her, Lillian. 
I can also tell about Nos. Ill, 113 
and 114. Several years ago, when Mr. 
Black and I were reaching out for all 
the best we could get, I bought a lot of 
light mixtures from Mr. Cowee and 
from Mrs. Austin. About the same 
time B. got a lot from a Mr. Huth in 
Ohio. Among the earliest to bloom 
was the one we now call Bernice and he 
called it "H-l” — the H standing for Huth. 
A fine yellow was called H-2 and two 
others H-3 and 4 respectively. Later 
he rubbed out the bar in "H” and the 
marks then stood 111, 112, 113 and 
114. Wishing for a name he called No. 
Ill Bernice. He intended, later, to call 
No. 113 Beulah, but found the Rouge 
Torch was the same. 
Now, where No. 113 came from, per- 
haps Mrs. Austin can tell but I suspect 
she found it among the Groffs for I 
know she bought from that collection 
early. I would like to know. I forgot 
to say that Mr. Huth had bought much 
of the stock he sold here from Mrs. 
Austin. 
Among others I have named are A. 
C. Slocum, Dairy Maid, Independence, 
Littleton, Orchid (apologies to Mr. 
Kunderd) Queenly, one of the very best 
lights in the market, I think, and they 
are all Groff’s. I think Mr. Tracy, like 
myself, has been a godfather rather 
than a father. Geo. S. Woodruff. 
CROSS OF HONOR PHLOX. 
I have two distinct forms of this va- 
riety, and wish to know if other grow- 
ers have ever seen this variation. 
One grows four feet high, and the 
other about three feet. They both have 
the same markings, but the taller one 
grows less stems in a hill. 
Willis E. Fryer. 
MAKING RECORDS WHEN DIGGING 
STOCK IN THE FALL. 
Another labor saver I have found in 
the fall when digging special beds of 
planting stock for next season or 
your seedlings or named varieties, is 
the use of a chair. The digging of 
these and entering all the details of the 
different varieties in your planting and 
digging record book (of course you 
have one) is particularly a back break- 
ing operation, especially if you grow in 
a large way as the labor runs some- 
times into a whole week’s job. "Armed” 
with your record book, your hand 
spade, a dishpan or two, your sieves of 
various meshes and your chair, you 
sally forth, and when you have dug a 
batch, freed it from the adhering earth 
and dumped it in the pan, just sit 
down — in the chair — and leisurely 
make your entries in book, write your 
labels, put the precious stock in its 
proper bag, tying the same, doing all 
these operations while at your ease with 
the cool breezes of the fall fanning 
your glowing cheeks. The labor then 
almost becomes a pleasure and the 
notes you make in your book will be 
sure to be fuller and in more detail and 
next spring when you get your stock 
out for replanting you will know, from 
the full notes of the labels, leisurely 
written out in detail, more what you 
are about and (as in the case when they 
are hurriedly written when you are all 
tired out) not knowing in the spring 
just were you are at. 
B. F. Stalnaker. 
EARLY BLOOM FROM BULBLETS. 
From a long series of our new varie- 
ties of Gladiolus, we planted this year 
at the end of April several bulblets of 
over one-half inch in diameter, all of 
which had grown up in the last week 
of July with six to ten flower-buds, 
whereas the standing of the plant was 
as sturdy as that of first size Gladio- 
lus Primulinus. 
The varieties of which we had planted 
these bulblets were : Reine Victoria, 
Sunrise, Apricot, Ada, Albion, L’ Unique, 
Conspicuous and Fire Queen. From 
these the Reine Victoria made the big- 
gest bulblets, though the fact remains 
that all normal sized bulblets were in 
bloom within three months, just like 
ordinary-sized bulbs. 
By way of completing our intimation 
we may add that the so-called mother- 
bulb of Reine Victoria measured about 
four inches in diameter, when we lifted 
the plant, and was not yet full-grown 
at that time. 
J. J. Grullemans & Sons. 
TITANIC. 
I grew this variety for the first time 
in 1915, when it flowered on the 16th 
of August. In 1916 it bloomed on the 
1st of September. 
It was one of ten varieties I pur- 
chased from the raiser and I thought it 
was, with Helen Goldman, the best of 
the bunch. 
I have no record of it this year, as I 
was away from home when it was due 
to flower. I hope to have it under ob- 
servation again next year. G. c. 
