RED LORY was extra good this year and remains one of my favorite dozen; ROSE¬ 
MARIE PFITZER is a wonder glad but as its rival of similar color, QUEEN MARY, 
varies very much in color, sometimes a clear cream with not a bit of pink yet again so 
pink it could almost go as a light pink, Rosemarie will be a most ponular variety with its 
fine show spikes and many well shaped dowers open at once. PROFESSOR von SLOG- 
TEREN is a beautiful glad and in spite cf its slightly similar color to that of PIGARDY 
should be widely grown; PICARDY is a great glad, a good one for the exhibitor, for the 
decorative enthusiast and the commercial cut Power grower, that the bulblets bloom 
freely proves it a strong grower, medium bulbs give good spikes and did better than the 
jumbo bulbs planted in the same row last season. 
Among the dark “blues” there is the widely known PELEGRINA, a good increaser 
and now much reduced in price and the less known BLUR DELIGHT from Miss 
Douglass in Australia, this one is grand color and a good glad but only a medium tall 
grower; LIBELLE is a much improved Mrs. Konvnenburg and ALT. WEIN which was 
extra good this past season is along the color lines cf AVE MARIA; Palmer’s new 
CHAMPLAIN is a decided advance in the light “blue” color class, its unusual colored 
throat markings improve its attractiveness. 
BLONDE is of a most pleasing color and with TANGERINE, the grand colored 
orange, make a great decorative pair from Australia. D. A. HAY is the much talked of 
New Zealand variety that has won so many recent championships over there and looks to 
be the best Miss Whiteley has ever introduced, the color is along the lines of Mrs. Dr. 
Norton. MISS NEW ZEALAND a real giant from that country appears to be the Her¬ 
cules of the gladiolus tribe from what they say in Ballarat where it has been in the Test 
Garden for two years and while the bulbs I have had were not large it gave promising 
spikes and another year should tell the story. 
GERTRUDE SWENSON shown on the front cover has again been very Pne and 
is about my ideal exhibition type and the description in the regular list adds a bit to that 
picture. ST. ALBANS from the originator of Gertrude Swenson was outstanding with 
its long spikes of well placed blooms and seems destined for a popular place over here. 
CARMENIA of Mair’s was again a favorite of our many visitors and it easily replaces 
all those in the well liked Dr. Shook color class as it makes a great show spike. 
MORONGO and COIMBA, two new ones from Errey, will be widely grown as soon as 
stocks are increased enough to quote lower prices. Anyone interested in the striking 
colors so often found in Lemoine’s French varieties should try MAURICE BARRES and 
the older PAUL CAMBON and PAUL DESCHANEL. 
This report of how these numerous new originations appeared to me may be of some 
help to the reader in making out the '1934 “Want List” and if so its object has been 
accomplished. I know I have left out many of the older top notchers but thought most 
of you have seen or grown these yourselves. 
