FLYING CLOUD FARMS 
NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 
Random Notes on Varieties 
Still the good whites come from Pfttzer; STAR OF BETHELEHEM is a great 
variety and seems the best of his more recent ones although Heiligtum, introduced last 
year, may still be another step ahead, if a good propagator. MAUNGA was very pure 
in color and the largest of the good whites, certainly it made them take notice at the New 
York show. MAID OF ORLEANS has fulfilled all the good things I said of it and 
surely is going to be the coming commercial white. MARGARET PETER proved itself 
as a great white with blotch, at the shows. 
The largest blooms I saw were on TAKINA which proved a strong growing giant 
and a good increaser, MISS NEW ZEALAND was the best I have yet seen it; I had a 
spike of it at Boston with twelve out, but by noon the heat had taken toll of the lower 
ones and it was not shown although many growers saw it. RED GIANT was a bit later 
than these other two and yet I like it the best of the three. It may fall just a bit below 
them in size of bloom but its fine color surely offsets this factor. How many times I 
heard my garden visitors say, when a long way from it, “Ah! what is that big American 
Beauty rose colored one?” I note that RED GIANT received the highest score in the 
Ballarat Test Garden the past season. 
Several nice ones came over recently from Barth in Germany, possibly the best was 
BAD HOMBURG, another case where the pink color was very outstanding, the same is 
the case of Mair’s new SOUTHPORT which I feel is one of his best from the 1934 group 
although the straw colored ALEXANDRIA and CONJURER are both very fine. 
Possibly the season was good for the “blues” anyway they seemed better than ever 
and I wish I could find out which really were the best of several of rather similar shade. 
LIBELLE was again extra good, the older BLUE DANUBE and ALT. WEIN the best 
I ever saw them. PERLE BRILLIANT seemed unusually fine but as it is in bloom ahead 
of the others I dare say it would look good anyway; CHAMPLAIN was good but un¬ 
fortunately was in flower with these other fine newer ones, MILFORD, MAX REGER, 
ALLEGRO and BLUE BEAUTY. In the darker blues I like BLUE DELIGHT the best, 
has a fine stem, velvety color and appealed to the judges. 
The dark reds, such as MOORISH KING and ARABELLA, are good but I think the 
still newer one BLACK OPAL, of Errey’s, will be even better. COMMANDER KOEHL 
still is the most popular of the pure reds although BILL SOWDEN and TOSCA are 
equally fine but of rather different type. BETTY NUTHALL and MRS. ERREY are 
still the great show oranges, with TANGERINE as a large decorative. 
The much desired yellow still is missing but the best of the new ones seemed to be 
LAUSANNE; good CANBERRA still are hard to beat in the shows. TAINUI, of 
Julyan’s was a good salmon. The great W. H. PHIPPS perfectly grown still can lead the 
salmon pinks, what a great glad this has been in spite of the fact that we get many 
ordinary spikes for every real one but when we see those great exhibition spikes the 
memory sure stays. The best rose red I know is CARMENIA. MINUET and BERTY 
vSNOW are two great lavenders, still supreme. I still think well grown spikes of QUEEN 
MARY are unbeatable in the cream class. 
ROSEMARIE PFITZER was very fine and is a most popular variety; although it is 
not a PICARDY as an increaser, I am glad it is not. AUTUMN GLORY of Errey’s is 
a fine new novelty and the even more recent GREY WING was a favorite of all who saw 
it last season. COIMBA appears to have a commercial future. FRANK J. McCOY was 
never better than last summer and we cut many dozens of spikes as good as our Boston 
championship vase. EDITH ROBSON was as good as usual and that is saying some¬ 
thing. The waxy white blooms of EUIDES with a blush of pink made it popular. 
Mitsch’s CHRISTOBEL, a late variety, continued to attract much attention just before 
frost. 
Symons’ EVELYN STINTON made great spikes and received good comments at 
New York and Boston, where a spike or two were shown in collections. For a novel 
