FLYING CLOUD FARMS 
NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 
Class 9 Best collection of 15 varieties, one spike each, of New England origination. 
1st Prize, C. W. Brown silver trophy. 
This was won with 15 of our seedlings. 
N.E.G.S. Challenge Silver Cup for the most meritorious entry in Section A won 
by our entry of seedlings in class 6. 
Wendell W. Wyman Silver Cup for the championship vase of the show, won with 
Frank J. McCoy with our Miss New Zealand as runner-up. 
Bancroft Winsor Trophy for sweepstakes in the open exhibition classes with 14 
firsts and 11 seconds. 
The Concord Vase for sweepstakes in the large flowered (4 / 2 " or over) decora¬ 
tive class. This vase was given by Jelle Roos in 1922 and had to be won 
three times for permanent ownership; as this is our third win it is now 
retired. 
The Boston Transcript Trophy for the most meritorious entry in the show bv a 
Massachusetts exhibitor won by our Class 6 entry of seedlings. 
The following varieties were our prize winners in the open color classes at Boston. 
Where there is a (2) it means the variety won in both exhibition and decorative classes. 
Margaret Peters (2) 
Frank J. McCoy (2) 
Paul Deschanel (2) 
Mother Machree (2) 
Mr. Wm. Cuthbertson (2) 
Queen Mary 
Angkor 
Ramsay MacDonald 
General Mangin 
Maurice Barres 
Jessie 
Gertrude Swenson 
Blue Delight 
Full Value 
Laidley 
La Paloma (Barth) 
Miss New Zealand 
Mrs. F. J. Cullen 
Betty Nuthall 
Moondara 
Tainui 
Ramesses 
Tosca 
Amador 
Royal Gold 
Dr. Buchan 
Our Selection 
Blue Danube 
Amethyst 
Moorish King 
Commander Koehl 
Pelegrina 
Rosemarie Pfitzer 
Nyora 
Review of the Season of 1935 
The past season proved a most favorable one here at Flying Cloud Farms; the growth 
of the young stock was excellent and the blooming bulbs gave very fine spikes. We were 
fortunate in having an unlimited amount of water for irrigation which took good care of 
the growth during two spells of droughts. The fall was very dry and made digging and 
curing easier than usual although the large increase in stocks and the tremendous amount 
of work involved in the handling of the seedlings at digging made it very late before 
the last bulbs were out of the ground and for this reason we could not ship the fall 
orders as early as we would try to do another year. 
The blooming season saw many fine new varieties for the first time from large bulbs 
and of course that is the only way to tell their true worth. Some gladiolus do well from 
medium or even small bulbs but many varieties and especially those that make spikes 
with ten or a dozen large blooms open at once must have a large bulb to make roots 
enough to supply them with the proper amount of food and water. At show time many 
of the newer introductions were in blossom and we were able to exhibit these varieties so 
the public could see them, many for the first time and others we were able to show in 
fair amounts which we had previously shown only as single spikes. 
