HERITAGE, 1933 HERITAGE, 1934 
ities of the blooms are above the average. 
Placement is very good and the general con¬ 
tour of the spike leaves but little to be desired. 
Heritage consistently opens from nine to twelve 
large blooms and has been grown in the field 
with sixteen florets open at once. Heritage was 
displayed at the Iowa State Gladiolus Show at 
Cedar Rapids in 1934 and won two Iowa Glad¬ 
iolus Society Gold Medals—one for the Grand 
Champion Spike of the show, and another as 
the most outstanding seedling of the Exhibition 
Type.” 
Many other friends and customers of the 
Colonial Gardens either saw Heritage in our 
garden (when they visited us) or viewed it at 
one or more of the four shows where it was ex¬ 
hibited the past summer: the Iowa, Wisconsin, 
and Minnesota shows and the Century of 
Progress Exhibition (at every one of which shows 
Heritage was the grand champion). In last 
autumn’s circular we quoted several letters from 
prominent fans who had seen Heritage. Here 
are a few more testimonials. We could not 
possibly quote more than a small fraction of 
the commendatory comment we have received 
regarding this great new glad. 
Heritage is a fine robust grower with heavy 
foliage. We displayed spikes of it at the Min¬ 
nesota show over five feet tall. It is a good 
propagator, comparing favorably with both its 
parent varieties. It blooms in about 100 days. 
We are selling only large bulbs of Heritage 
this year. Approximately three-fourths of this 
stock is already sold (January 1st) and we 
expect a complete sell-out before spring. The 
price is extraordinarily low due to our new price 
policy of growing a glad one year longer than 
usual and then introduciitg it at a price low 
enough to enable fans to purchase bulbs instead 
of merely bulblets the first season. If you want 
this outstanding new variety this season we 
advise immediate ordering. After we are sold 
out of large bulbs all money will be refunded. 
Price of HERITAGE: 
$1.00 each for large bulbs with 
no discount for quantity. 
vigorous constitution, long stretchy bud-spike and strong 
texture. It has proved itself to be an ideal parent when 
crossed with another variety that has many large flowers 
open at one time. In this happy cross between Mr. W. 
II. Phipps x Giant Nymph, Heritage has inherited the 
good qualities of both its parents without at the same 
time retaining their faults. One parent has given it won¬ 
derful florescence and large size of flowers, while the 
other has contributed the strong constitution, long 
straight spike free from crowding and terminal bunchi¬ 
ness, and distinctive color markings. The ability to 
bloom out to the very end and produce florets of nearly 
uniform size throughout the length of the spike comes 
from the one parent, while the quality of producing depend¬ 
able spikes, which makes it a “splendid doer” is known as 
coming from the other. In color Heritage is a rich, warm 
pure-pink, blending to lighter in the throat, with white 
mid-ribs on the lower petals. The general impression of 
its color is midway between the inherent colors of Mrs. 
P. IF. Sisson and Longfellow, with the lighter coloring of 
the throat enhancing the beauty of the flowers. In fact 
the color is so clear and free from imperfections that it 
gives the feeling of having been flowered in a cloth house. 
The flowerhead is long — averaging twenty-nine inches — 
and carries twenty-one buds, thus constituting tall, stretchy 
spikes which come uniformly straight. The florets are of 
the wide open type of bloom, six inches in diameter, and 
are attractive in both form and coloring. This variety 
possesses substance of a high order and the keeping qual- 
“ Heritage, a new seedling, was the Champion Spike and 
the center of interest. Very large and very beautiful, it 
will be hard to beat. After taking one of these spikes home, 
we saw this new variety in almost perfect condition on 
Monday evening with thirteen florets open. The spike 
was perfectly straight and had not developed any softness 
at the tip.” 
C. G. Young, Florist, 
in Wisconsin Horticulture. 
“Congratulations on all the winnings with Heritage , 
which I saw at the Century of Progress. Its sturdiness, 
placement and large number of wide-open flowers ought 
to recommend it to all glad growers.” 
Roy Stitzel, Montana. 
“I visited the Colonial Gardens principally to see Heri¬ 
tage and found it just as outstanding in performance as 
in beauty. It stood five feet tall in the open garden and 
there was not a stubby or crooked spike in the row.” 
Arnold Stautz, Wisconsin. 
“I grow or have seen a great majority of the best and 
latest introductions, but I have never seen anything that 
could even run close to Heritage in size of spikes, blooms, 
color or placement.” 
R. L. Lord, Illinois. 
