The Garden Magazine, October, 1923 
WHITE SEEDLING OF SCHWABEN 
Something over three hundred seedlings, many of them fine hut all as yet 
the rich reward of patience and enthusiasm on the part of Dr. Moody, 
A large proportion of their new varieties is of superior merit, of 
quality that will place them among the leaders of the highest 
class. 
Take for example Fischer’s seedling, which he has named 
Mrs. Frederick C. Peters, a brilliant beauty of the Pendleton 
type—the “ Broadway type,” I have named it elsewhere. The 
blossoms of the new beauty are large, of a rich rosy lavender 
with a patch of bright crimson on the lower petals. It is quite 
as showy as Mrs. Frank Pendleton and more beautiful, and is 
already a ruling favorite. 
Another of Fischer’s beauties is Robinhood, a red primulinus, 
that was much admired at the recent exhibitions. And still 
another is Fortuna, a strong plant bearing a large flower of 
graceful form and fine coloring—flesh pink with a patch of bright 
scarlet and pale yellow. And still others of high degree from 
that same skillful hand are Crusader, Mrs. A. G. Nelson, 
Henry C. Goehl, Sophie Fischer, and some fifteen more, 
as well as a string of recent seedlings of notable quality to be 
offered later. 
Gage is another of our more skillful hybridizers. He has 
already produced a number of exceptional quality though he 
has not yet offered many of them to the public, for he will offer 
none but those which he decides are of real merit, after several 
years of trial—and Gage is rather conservative. Not that I 
blame him for that—there are too many inferior sorts thrust 
on the market, and the growers should combine to prevent their 
increase. Among the varieties that Gage has given us is one 
that in its first year of bloom was pronounced “the finest and 
best Gladiolus 1 have ever seen” by that most competent of 
judges, the late Maurice Fuld. Fuld’s death occurred soon 
after and Gage named the variety for him— Maurice Fuld. 
The blossom is described as “rich rose doree, with a blotch of 
tyrian rose on a pure white throat.” It is of exceptionally large 
size and of good substance, and is well set 
on a strong and straight stem. 
Alma Gluck is another product of the 
Gage garden that has superior merit, It is 
a peach red primulinus, of rare beauty and 
grace. And still another of great merit—a 
real beauty—is Mrs. Frank Morton, a clear 
white, the tips of each petal splashed with 
geranium pink, the lower petals bearing a 
patch of pomegranate purple above a yellow 
throat. Marjorie Gage —clear white with 
a large blotch of fiery scarlet—is also a Gage 
production. 
Spencer has already given us Amy Belle, a 
bright yellow primulinus, which was awarded 
first prize for the best yellow at the Boston 
Show of 1920, and May Toy, an exceedingly 
graceful and decorative sort—colors, orange 
and yellow. His Wingold, a clear yellow, 
wearing a border of bright red on each petal, 
adds to this unique coloration an exception¬ 
ally graceful form, and the combination wins 
universal admiration. Of the same type is 
Julianna, bearing pink stripes on the edges 
of its yellow petals, and some fifty others not 
yet named, of this bright bordered race. A 
showy beauty from the Spencer garden is 
Waban —bright orange red with a darker 
blotch—a rich and stately sort; and another 
is Mrs. F. D. Rand, wearing a very pretty 
tone of rose pink. 
Brown has introduced already more than 
thirty of his seedlings and among them is 
Goldfinch, a lemon yellow, that has won 
several prizes. H^ has produced numerous 
others—good sorts- which he has not yet 
offered to the public 
including a string of 
yellow primulinus hybrids that have been 
much admired. His Melba, wearing a 
creamy tint veined with yellow and a 
unnamed, are 
an amateur 
NEW SEEDLING RUFFLED PRIMULINUS 
To its other graces of form and color this type has 
recently added a fluted edge and a wide open flower 
