MAID OF ORLEANS, which is a fairly early variety, I still believe is the finest 
white for either exhibition or commercial use to date; SNOWDEN is another good 
white with straight clean growth and blooming much later than MAID OF ORLEANS. 
Whites with strong throat markings to replace that fine old variety MAD. M SULLY 
seem to have come in the new MARGARET PETER and MADELON, both are great 
advances over the old favorite, being tall growers and having much of the present day 
style. Especially valuable because it is so early is PROFESSOR von SLOGTEREN, 
being of a pleasing pink shade was well liked by the florists, and commercial growers 
who saw it growing in the field were especially pleased with the strong straight growth 
and the fact that it bloomed so well from small sizes and bulblets. 
ROUGET de LISLE which has always been a great variety here seemed to realize 
that it had a couple of contenders for the leadership in its color class and did so well 
that I am not so sure but that it is still the best and the last two years it has increased 
easily which formerly was one of its faults; PASTEUR, a variety of Lemoine’s, but not 
as new as many, was exceptionally fine the past season. 
EDITH ROBSON has a pretty ground color with a pleasing dark blotch and to 
anyone interested in a large number open and well placed on the spike this variety 
will be of much interest; the bright pink and white MR. CUTHBERTSON has now 
been grown in large enough quantities so the florists could get it and they are very en¬ 
thusiastic about it as a commercial variety. Another old one that the florists were 
anxious to get the past season was the pretty refined ALPHEUS. TANGERINE was 
•one of the best in the orange class coming early, growing tall and blooming freely from 
bulblets. JOHN RAMSAY was better than ever, which is saying considerable, and 
with 14 open on a good spike can go a long way at any show. 
SUNNYSIDE and SILVERSHEEN were both extra good; due to the demand last 
season only small bulbs of GERTRUDE SWENSON were planted but they made good 
spikes and the past season we saw several fine seedlings from this variety. ST. ALBANS 
made tall spikes, typically Australian, with many open and perfect placement. WARA- 
TAH, MORONGO and COIMBA again proved to be the best of Errey’s 1932 intro¬ 
ductions, the color of COIMBA is a very pleasing pink and it grows very strong with 
wide foliage. CARMENIA was the best of the rose and rose red group, LOCHNAGAR 
and FIELD MARSHALL were outstanding in the “mahogany” colored smokies. ESME 
DESAILLY gave many wonderful exhibition spikes and should be grown and shown 
more widely. BLONDE was much admired when used for interior decoration. 
CHASSEUR was a very large striking new one from Errey that caused much com¬ 
ment at Boston. MINNOCH stood out among the later ones from Mair and the tall 
spikes of ANGKOR were as good as a year ago. A new Holland variety, ALKE- 
MADE’S TRIUMPH was of nice orange color and may be the one we have been look¬ 
ing for so long; MRS. J. J. CLENDINNEN still is the best of the light pinks with 
blotch and EVELYN STINTON made some of the greatest exhibition spikes we ever 
grew here and is destined to become very popular as soon as it is more widely known 
and stocks are larger. 
MISS NEW ZEALAND was by far the most outstanding glad we have seen for 
many days for this year it bloomed from larger bulbs that were better acclimated and 
the spikes were enormous, the color is good and when we saw a spike of 22 buds with 
9 of these 7 ! /2 inch flowers open one realizes how big it really grows; T AKIN A is 
equally as large but because it was introduced later is not so widely known. These two 
with RED GIANT are the only ones admitted to the mammoth section by the Ballarat 
Test Garden but I can assure you that there are more coming in other colors. MAKE- 
NU, MAUNGA and WHERO from the originator of TAKINA were large, but not 
quite the equal of the other three in size this year, however they had qualities that will 
put them on the top in their particular color classes. MILFORD is a good light “blue,” 
possibly the best to date. PITHY, another good one from New Zealand along the type 
of PHIPPS. 
YTere were many other varieties that were very outstanding, most of which will be 
