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exceptionally large, Mary Elizabeth makes a very fine exhibition flower 
as well as a fine cut flower. 
Gates of Heaven was again the finest yellow of the year. It is a 
yellow that is a yellow; highly finished blooms with heavy substance. 
Golden Chimes looked good, but must be tested out another year before 
it will be catalogued. Golden Cup, a golden yellow, is outstanding as to 
purity of color; it is a great improvement over Golden Dream as a com¬ 
mercial variety. Something different in the yellows is Golden Anni¬ 
versary; an enormous flower of fawn-yellow suffused blush-pink with a 
large, red blotch, and finely ruffled petals. It is quite distinctive and 
beautiful. Ruffled Gold is still a favorite with us. A new and distinc¬ 
tive shade of yellow is found in Cadillac; the florets are a golden apricot 
yellow and have no throat markings. If we add a little orange to our 
yellows, we have Dearborn with its mammoth flowers. Netherland 
Prince reminds one of an orange Giant Nymph and can be grown just as 
easily as this fine old variety. No list of oranges are complete without 
Betty Nuthall with its towering spikes. 
Minuet is still the finest of the lavender varieties. Mme. Schumann- 
Heink is a variety that must be seen to be appreciated. At a short 
distance, it resembles an orchid, markings and all. It is a Diener vari¬ 
ety that has been in commerce for some time, but is still very scarce. 
If you like ruffled varieties, King Arthur, with its graceful spikes, is 
outstanding. Gertrude Swenson is the giant among lavenders and will 
easily open 12-14 flowers at one time. An old favorite is Berty Snow. 
Salbach’s Orchid may be described as a pinker Minute. 
The blue and the dark violet class is progressing more and more 
each year with the finest varieties coming from Rev. Christ. His Blue 
Admiral is being admired by everyone, but his new Robert Burns leaves 
very little to wish for as far as dark blues are concerned. Blue Domina, 
Blue Majesty, and Bonnie Blue, all Christ varieties, are three pleasing 
and different shades of light blue. From Germany comes Max Reger, 
a blue with sharp, white lines in the throat giving the flower the re¬ 
semblance of a beautiful blue butterfly. Pelegrina has an excellent color, 
but the stems are rather weak. 
There are good pinks for every taste and pocketbook. Picardy, in 
the salmon-pinks, stands supreme—’nuf said. Miss New Zealand is com¬ 
ing toward the front fast; it is the first of a new race called the 
mammoth type. Regardless of what some people think, we find the 
apricot-salmon color very pleasing, and six to eight-inch florets are not 
uncommon. Smiling Maestro in the orange-salmon class is another of 
Rev. Christ’s fine varieties. It easily took the blue ribbon in its class 
at the Minnesota Gladiolus Society Show. Sonatine, Pfitzer’s new pure 
pink, is a real super Glad; it is one of the finest colors we have seen in 
a long time. Margaret Fulton, a rich salmon-pink that makes an ideal 
spike for cutting, is one of our favorites. Mildred Louise is giving 
Picardy a good run for top honors; and in some respects w r e like it 
better than Picardy. Good pinks are almost endless. We have Lotus 
with its delicate coloring; Jessie for dependability; Miss Greeley and 
