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COLONIAL GARDENS 
One of the best new sorts is the deep yellow Jonquil. Golden Chimes makes a well-tilled spike of medium yellow with 
a large light throat. Canberra, of a greenish cast, has exhibition value. Spray of Gold is attractively informal. Pfitzer’s 
Do-X is a light amber yellow which looks very promising. Gate of Heaven has a deeper color. Plant Primate for September 
bloom and you will be surprised at its quality. . . . For the yellows we add a special column in the detailed analysis: 
BEAUTY 
PERFORMANCE 
SIZE 
DEPTH OF COLOR 
1. Ruffled Gold 
Golden Dream . 
. (very good) 
Canberra. 
. (large decorative) 
Golden Poppy 
2. Golden Goddess 
Golden Chimes. 
. . (very good) 
Golden Goddess. 
. (large decorative) 
Jonquil 
3. Star Lily 
Golden Goddess. 
(very good?) 
Do-X. 
. (large decorative) 
Golden Goddess 
1. Do-X 
lonquil. 
. (good) 
Star Lily. 
. (large decorative) 
Golden Dream 
5. Golden Chimes 
Golden Poppy.. 
. (good) 
Zillah. 
. (large decorative) 
Tobersun 
(>. Golden Poppy 
1 )o-X. 
. (good) 
Golden Chimes. . 
. (large decorative) 
Spray of Gold 
7. lonquil 
Spray of Gold. . 
. (good) 
Gate of Heaven 
. (medium decorative) 
Gate of Heaven 
S. Golden Dream 
Clarion. 
. (good) 
Primate. 
. (medium decorative) 
Clarion 
9. Primate 
Star Lily. 
. (good) 
Clarion. 
. (medium decorative) 
Do-X 
10. Luxury 
Primate. 
. (good) 
Tobersun. 
. (medium decorative) 
Primate 
11. Golden Frills 
Tobersun. 
. (good) 
Jonquil. 
.... (medium decorative) 
Golden Frills 
12. Clarion 
Zillah. 
. (good) 
Golden Dream 
. (medium decorative) 
Zillah 
13. Tobersun 
Ruffled Gold . . . 
. (good) 
Ruffled Gold. . 
. (medium decorative) 
Golden Chimes 
14. Spray of Gold 
Luxury. 
. (good) 
Spray of Gold 
. (medium decorative) 
Ruffled Gold 
15. Zillah 
Golden Frills. . . 
.( fair) 
Golden Poppy . . . 
.... (medium decorative) 
Canberra 
16. Gate of Heaven 
Canberra. 
. (fair) 
Luxury. 
. (medium decorative) 
Luxury 
17. Canberra 
Gate of Heaven 
.( fair) 
Golden Frills . . . . 
. (small flowered) 
Star Lily 
CLASS 6 — MISCELLANEOUS PASTELS 
(CREAM, BUFF AND FLESH) 
FIRST HUNDRED capS SECOND HUNDRED c i L p& 
Originator 
Year 
Size 
Substance 
Variety Unit Price 
Type 
Season 
Deficiencies 
Kunderd 
1931 
S.D. 
B 
CREAM CUPS 
.25 
PI. 
.M 
?. 
Palmer 
.1932 
M.D. 
B 
DUNA 
.30 
PI. 
. EM 
21. 
Kunderd 
1921 
L.D. 
C 
FERN KYLE 
.05 
Ruf. 
EM 
5,24 
Prestgard 
1935 
L.D. 
A 
GUNVOR 
1.00 
Ruf. 
..ML 
6,16,19.. 
Crow . 
1930 
M.D. 
A 
HERCULES 
1.00 
PI. 
.M 
6,30,19 
Prestgard 
1929 
M.D. 
B 
LOTUS 
.15 
PI. 
EM 
Stevens, H. W. 
1931 
M.D. 
B 
MARY ELIZABETH 
.35 
Ruf. 
...M 
Palmer_ 
1931 
S.F. 
B 
MRS. E. SCHUMACHER 
,10 
PL 
M 
29 
Miller, D. R. 
.1930 
L.D. 
C 
MRS. RAY P. CHASE 
.20 
PI. 
EM 
1,21 
Mair 
.1920 
L.D. 
B 
QUEEN MARY„.. 
.35 
Ruf. 
...M 
19,23 
Crane 
...1933 
L.D. 
B 
SYLVIA SIDNEY 
1.00 
Ruf. 
...ML 
?_ 
Palmer . 
1932 
M.D. 
B 
WASAGA 
.. .30 
Ruf. 
..M 
The varieties in this class are so lovely that we rechristened the group with a more appropriate name. In their superbly 
delicate coloring what a far call some of these glads are from the wild ancestral species! 
Easily the most beautiful is the lavishly frilled Gunvor in which are paradoxically concentrated both such fragile deli¬ 
cacy and such extraordinary richness. We might wish this glad were an easy performer like many a more ordinary sort, 
but 1 suspect that it will be many years before such rare perfection will be combined with regularity. Not that this va¬ 
riety hasn’t plenty of vigor; it is just erratic. Everyone who grows this variety will think it fine, but some will see it in 
much more representative form than others. The giant spike of Gunvor photographed in 1933, pictured in this catalog, 
is by all odds the most beautiful single spike of gladiolus the writer has ever seen. 
There is much variation in color in this group: Mrs. Ray P. Chase and Mary Elisabeth are whites with yellow and 
cream throats respectively. Both are very lovely. We need more glads of this color combination; they blend so well with 
other colors. Duna is a very soft buff pink or warm flesh color; we look to see it increase in popularity. The lovely frilled 
W a saga is a buff-apricot that almost belongs in the salmon-pink class. Sylvia Sidney we have not grown but it is very strongly 
recommended. It is a subdued flesh color, and beautifully ruffled. About eight florets are open at one time. This glad may 
deserve a higher rating. 
Hercules (an unusual seedling of Golden Dream and Souvenir ) seemed too similar to Wasaga to deserve a place in the 
l irst Hundred. Another lovely pale apricot is the small-flowered Mrs. Shumacher. Highly variable but at its best a very- 
fragile beauty is Queen Mary. It is a delicate flesh color. . . . Fine creams are Cream Cups and Fern Kyle. . . . The 
ever increasing popularity of Lotus (see illustration) indicates an increasing color-consciousness on the part of glad fans. 
May I say that if you have admired the beauty of a single spike of this variety, you will have another surprise coming 
to you when you see a whole armful of this exquisite combination of cream, white, and palest pink, with its unusual waxy 
sheen. 
BEAUTY 
PERFORMANCE 
SIZE 
1 . Gunvor 
Lotus. 
. . . (excellent ) 
Gunvor 
2. Queen Mary 
Duna . 
. (good) 
Mrs. Ray P. Chase. 
3. Lotus 
Mary Elizabeth 
. (good) 
Queen Mary. 
4. Wasaga 
Wasaga. 
.( good i 
Fern Kyle 
5. Mary Elizabeth 
Fern Kyle. 
. (good I 
Lotus. 
6. Mrs. Ray P. Chase 
Hercules. 
. (good) 
Hercules 
7. Duna 
Cream Cups . 
. (good) 
Mary Elizabeth 
S. Cream Cups 
Mrs. E. Shumacher. . . 
. (good) 
Duna . 
9. Fern Kyle 
Mrs. Ray P. Chase . . 
. . . (variable) 
Wasaga 
0. Mrs. E. Schumacher 
Gunvor . 
. . . (variable) 
Cream Cups . 
1. Hercules 
Queen Mary . 
. . . (variable) 
Mrs. E. Shumacher 
12. Sylvia Sidney (no ex¬ 
perience with this va¬ 
riety') 
. . . (large decorative) 
. (large decorative) 
. (large decorative) 
. . (large decorative) 
. (,medium decorative) 
. (medium decorative) 
. (medium decorative) 
. (medium decorative) 
. (medium decorative) 
. . (small decorative) 
.... (small flowered) 
For Key to Deficiencies, see page ,12 
