Light Pink —Carolus Clusius, Debonair, Duna, Mrs. Langford, Schwaben 
Girl, Yvonne. 
Rose Pink —Dr. Shook, Littlejohn, Sultan. 
Salmon —Betty Nuthall, Edith Robson, Giant Nymph, Margaret Fulton, 
Picardy, Rapture. 
Lavender —Dr. Moody, Minuet. 
Light Blue —Bella Donna, Champlain. 
Medium Blue —Ave Maria. 
Dark Blue —Pelegrina. 
Purple —Chas. Dickens, Troubadour. 
Yellow —Golden Dream. Loyalty. Miss Bloomington, for early; Tobersun. 
We are still looking for the ideal commercial yellow. 
Orange —Gay Hussar, La Paloma. 
Bright Red —Dr. Bennett, Wurtembergia. 
Medium Red —Com. Koehl. 
Dark Red —Pirate. 
Smoky —Bagdad, Marmora, Roi Albert, Mother Machree. 
Blotched —Bleeding Heart. 
Earliest —A1 Smith, Champlain, Clarion, Dominus, Early Dawn, Escort, 
Excellence, Mibloom, Miss Bloomington, Orange Lily, Sunshine Susie. 
Exhibition Varieties 
Bleeding Heart, Dr. Bennett, Edith Robson, Mammoth White, Mother 
Machree, Picardy, Red Lory, Rosex, W. H. Phipps or most any other variety that 
opens 8-10 or more large blooms at a time. 
Best for Home Garden 
This is a matter of taste. All the varieties I list are good for the home garden 
but neither I nor anyone else can know what you will like. The only way to 
do is to read my descriptions and try them out for yourself. Even the poorest 
variety grown is liked by some people and the best is not liked by everyone. 
You can safely rely upon my descriptions to give you a good idea of what the 
best ones are. 
A. G. S. Classification 
This past season a number of gladiolus shows have used the new classification 
discarding the Prim and Prim. Grand classes and substituting the Decorative 
and Small Decorative. I think this is a big step in advance. 
At some of the shows a variety could be shown in either the exhibition or 
decorative class. The idea being that if a variety was good enough to win in both 
classes so much the better for the variety. After seeing how this worked out this 
past year I am fully convinced now that this idea is wrong. At the Boston show 
some varieties that were poorly grown won in the decorative class whereas if 
they had been shown in the exhibition class where they belonged they would 
have lost. This is putting a premium on poor culture which is entirely wrong. 
Hereafter I believe that the A. G. S. or some other constituted authority should 
designate under which class a variety should be shown and the variety should 
be limited to that one class. Then poorly grown specimens would not have a 
chance of winning prizes. 
Beauty Consciousness 
Last year in my catalog I said something about color consciousness. I should 
have gone farther and said beauty consciousness. There is a beauty of form as well 
as of color. Prof. Mervyn J. Bailey of Boston spoke to the New England Gladiolus 
Society last year on this subject. It is as Elbert Hubbard used to say, “something 
we always knew but didn’t know that we knew it until someone told us.” 
People who are just beginning to grow flowers usually prefer the odd and 
bizarre colors. But as they learn more about real beauty they appreciate the 
finer and more delicate colorings and forms. 
I think the reason that people do not appreciate beauty more is that they 
haven’t been educated to it. They really don’t understand what constitutes 
beauty. I cannot appreciate the beauty of most paintings nor of grand opera and 
many people are the same. But I believe that most anyone can learn beauty in 
flowers if they will study them a little. Not only gladiolus but other flowers as 
well. In the case of gladiolus many times the appearance and real beauty of a 
variety are enhanced by the variety having a clear throat. Too many of the 
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