GUIDEBOOK FOR 1935 
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even including the Decorative Type offerings, 
No obviously hooded sorts, though some, in¬ 
cluding Picardy, slightly so. Few yellows 
make large florets but those offered make fine 
flowerheads nevertheless. Only one Small 
Decorative Type variety offered, Orange But¬ 
terfly, but this one is unique in its class, hold¬ 
ing 10-18 very small florets open — rather a 
miniature Exhibition sort. 
The new Decorative Type Classification 
has paved the way to a better understanding 
and appreciation of the medium to large 
flowered sorts (florets mostly in the 4 to 5y£ 
inch range). Here are found a large number 
of beauties, far more usable and having more 
decorative possibilities in the average home 
than the massive Exhibition Type. Because 
many of them had no Primulinus blood they 
were heretofore made to compete with the 
giants. Being unable to win on size and 
number open, many of the world’s most out¬ 
standing cut flower sorts, with exceptionable 
color values, have secured scant recognition. 
Among these we may now expect to hear of 
new Champions, Decorative Type Champ¬ 
ions. Probably such varieties as Mary Eliza¬ 
beth, Mozart, Pauline Kunderd, Mrs. H. B. 
Ambler, Tanager, Rudolph Serkin (to be 
listed 1936). 
Before 1934 the Grand Champion winners 
were invariably chosen from the Exhibition 
Type. Due to lack of such awards in many 
shows and to repetitions by the actual win¬ 
ners, very few varieties have been heralded 
as Grand Champions of the shows. 
The following have so won inside the last 
three years, in major shows about the world: 
Albatros, 
Canberra, 
Commander Koehl, 
Coryphee, 
D. A. Hay, 
Frank J. McCoy (Exh. Type Champ., A.G. 
S., 1934), 
Heritage, 
Mildred Louise, 
Mother Machree, 
Mr. Fred’k. Christ, 
Mr. W. H. Phipps, 
Olive Goodrich (Dec. Type Champ., A.G. 
S., 1934), 
Orange Butterfly (as Small Dec.), 
Our Selection, 
Picardy (many times), 
Queen Mary, 
Red Phipps, 
Star of Bethlehem. 
What other, newer Exhibition gladiolus do 
we think have a good chance for Grand 
Championship awards? Dorothy Dow, Miss 
New Zealand, Rosemarie Pfitzer, Golden 
Goddess (to be listed as soon as patent re¬ 
strictions permit). 
By simple analysis of the number of stars 
(*), daggers (t) and double daggers (j) ap¬ 
pearing in the descriptions (see later full ex¬ 
planation), you are readily able to visualize 
the size of the individual floret, the number 
of them open at once and the approximate 
total number of buds on the flower spike. 
We list only the outstanding first prize 
winners of the last two years in national and 
other major gladiolus exhibitions around the 
world. While there are always a few “world 
beaters” in process of propagation which have 
not yet found their way into the shows, our 
catalog expresses much by its silent exclusion 
of many highly “tooted” sorts. Upon inquiry 
we will gladly discuss any variety excluded. 
OUR CUSTOMERS WIN 
In the greatest National Show in the his¬ 
tory of the American Gladiolus Society, held 
in the Cleveland Public Auditorium, 1931, in 
the Advanced Amateur Division, our cus¬ 
tomers won 118 points to 55 by all others, or 
68% of them all, also the Achievement 
Award for the Division. 
Even in the National Show, at Pittsburgh, 
Pa., 1932, our customers again won 53% of 
all points awarded to the Advanced Amateurs 
and one of them won the Achievement 
Award for the Division. 
In the same National Show at Pittsburgh 
our Junior customers won 87j/£% of all the 
points awarded in the Junior Division, win¬ 
ning also the Achievement Award covering 
both the Novice and Junior Divisions, dis¬ 
closing the fact that even the kids know 
Evans’ quality bulbs. 
In the National Show at Chicago, Century 
of Progress, 1934, one of our novice customers, 
Dr. Ralph C. Pease, who conducts a famous 
Diagnostic Clinic at Chardon, Ohio, and who 
buys substantially all his bulbs from us, 
proved to be the sensation of the second period 
exhibition of the seven-day show. Competing 
against all comers with three spikes in the 
“open to all” Exh. Type Division, he collected 
34 points to his nearest rival’s 26. All told, 
he won more points than any other amateur 
in the whole seven days. His exhibition 
spikes, wherever entered, were substantially 
unbeatable and he brought six spikes of Frank 
McCoy, any one of which dwarfed the best 
spikes of Picardy (his own, incidentally, win¬ 
ners in the Salmon Pink class). One of these 
spikes of Frank McCoy was awarded the Dr. 
A. C. Wood Challenge Cup as Grand Champ¬ 
ion spike of the show. See illustration. 
The reasons we have pictured some of our 
prize awards are: 
1. These prizes (and many more) were all 
won during the last four years when thrips 
infestations have been troublesome to many. 
It is unquestionable evidence that our stocks 
are carefully produced, healthy, free of insect 
pests and composed of varieties of first prize 
winning quality. 
