some of them are beautiful. But they practically all have many open at a time 
and have good placement. 
Other hybridizers in Holland have also produced some nice varieties but not 
so many of these have reached this country as from other places. 
Not very much is coming from France now though in previous years they 
have sent over a few good things. Emile Aubrun (Lemoine) is not only a fine 
variety in itself but has had and will continue to have for sometime a great in¬ 
fluence on new varieties. In Australia it has been used as the parent for many of 
their finest varieties. It is one of the parents of Picardy, Bagdad and other Palmer 
varieties and so it is the forerunner of almost a new race of glads noted especially 
for their beauty. Most every hybridizer has used Picardy in his crosses and it is 
producing some surprisingly beautiful seedlings. 
In England there are a number of good hybridizers but many of them there 
seem to be specializing in the 
primulinus type, a class that is 
not very popular in America. 
In America glads have 
been developed in a greater 
variety of form and color than 
anywhere else in the world. 
About twenty years ago Diener 
secured a real break and pro¬ 
duced a number of varieties 
like W. H. Phipps, Dr. Bennett 
and Mrs. Douglas that were 
very far in advance of any¬ 
thing introduced previous to 
that time. Some of these var¬ 
ieties are still going strong after 
fifteen or twenty years. Very 
few varieties last that long. 
The ruffled gladiolus and the 
lacinated type were produced 
by Kunderd and he also devel¬ 
oped greatly the primulinus. 
Many other hybridizers have 
produced quantities of new 
varieties of all shapes and 
colors, most of them however 
being of the commercial or 
decorative type. No one has 
specialized so much in the ex¬ 
hibition type as they have in 
Bagdad some other countries. 
With the creation of Pic¬ 
ardy Mr. Palmer produced 
the forerunner of another race or strain of glads. For the first time a variety was 
produced which combined large size, vigor and beauty of form and color such as 
were never seen in glads before. Picardy has proven itself a good parent and so in 
the next few years we may look for many more new varieties that will have much 
more real beauty than most of the varieties today. _ 
“Received shipment of bulbs in perfect condition. Thanks for prompt work. 
Many thanks for extras .” — Frank W. Schork, N. J. 
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