Col enial Galiens Untloiucilons lot /937 
Puritan (Baerman) C Sweetheart x Ruffled Peerless Pink (Seedling)). 
At first thought one would assume the name “Puritan” primarily suited to a white gladiolus. Yet 
anyone who has seen this exquisitely fresh pure-pink flower will recognize at once that the name suits it 
ideally. This variety, which is pictured on page 3 with but three open florets (though it will open five) 
is identical with Solveig in heaviness of substance, and is even more heavily ruffled. When we introduced 
Sweetheart in 1933 , we remarked about its unusual freshness of tone due to the almost entire absence in its 
make-up of the iota of pearl-gray which artists state underlies all colors in nature. Elimination of this 
submerged (and often unrecognized) color-factor, produces tones of ethereal freshness, and in this respect 
Puritan excels its parent, Sweetheart. It is also a considerably larger flower. The depth of color in the two 
varieties is about the same, with the pink of Puritan fading more evenly and gradually from the edges in¬ 
ward — not to a large white throat, as in Sweetheart , but through many gradations of pink to a small throat 
of richest ivory. The puckered ruffling enlivens a supremely winsome personality. Early. 
Price: Small bulbs, $10.00; Bulblets, $1.00 each. Only 10 bulbs and 300 bulblets for sale. 
Cavalier (Baerman) ( Sweetheart x Premier). 
The Colonial Gardens has never introduced a gladiolus with a detracting throat marking. Also, be¬ 
cause of the large number of Prestgard originations which we have introduced, we have probably run 
stronger to ruffled varieties than any other introducer in recent years. This remarkably beautiful seedling, 
Cavalier , inheriting a measure of primulinus vigor from both parents, shows the purity of tone typical of 
our introductions (in this case a deep cream, faintly flushed apricot) and climaxes the tendency toward 
ruffling. The spike pictured on page 3 , though grown from a small bulb, illustrates the lavish, truly ex¬ 
uberant ruffling of this variety. A prominent grower selected this seedling as one of our best. I personally 
consider both Puritan and Cavalier on a par with New Era. In general size effect, too, they are similar; 
though they will not open quite so many florets (generally four to six), the florets are larger and of heavier 
substance. Cavalier is a midseason bloomer. 
Price: Small bulbs, $10.00; Bulblets, $2.50 each. Only 10 bulbs and 100 bulblets for sale. 
Morning Serenade (C. Fischer) ( Picardy x Margaret Fulton ) 
After seeing this “cream-suffused Coryphee" as a seedling three years ago I described it orally to 
a friend as being of such vaporously soft coloring that the hues seemed literally suspended in front of the 
flower, making it difficult for the eyes to focus on the bloom. A year later this fancier seeing it for the 
first time only under number among a large group of pink seedlings immediately recognized it as Morning 
Serenade from the melting softness of its coloring. It is as pure a pink as Coryphee but a trifle warmer-toned 
and the light creamy midribs and throat are less distinct, everything being blended with imperceptible 
gradualness. In form, too, the blooms are the expression of softness and serene harmony, being smoothly 
rounded and recurved. About eight florets are open at one time. Morning Serenade is one of the loveliest 
gladiolus personalities ever offered to an increasingly discriminating public. A midseason bloomer. 
Price: Small bulbs, $10.00; Bulblets, $2.50 each. Only 10 bulbs and 100 bulblets for sale. 
Changeable Silk (Baerman) (Seedling of Picardy ) 
So far as we know this variety represents the first gladiolus “blend” to be introduced. The lightly 
ruffled florets, of good substance, are of a fresh light rose-pink ground-color overlaid with a sparkling mist 
of blue-tinted silver. I have never seen any other gladiolus that remotely resembled it in color. As a smoky 
it is far and away the daintiest of any. Yet it is hardly a smoky, as the pure rose pink tone shows through 
to a considerable extent, the exact nature of the overlay or blending being hard to describe. The silveri¬ 
ness lacks completely the heavy, murky quality seen in the ordinary smoky, possessing literally the fresh 
bright lustre of pale true silver with just the faintest suggestion of blueness. The small throat marking is 
pure cream. In color Changeable Silk is extraordinarily unique and beautiful. The spike itself is conserva¬ 
tive and well proportioned with 6 or 7 neatly spaced, broad-petaled florets open at one time. Midseason. 
Price: Small bulbs, $15.00; Bulblets, $5.00 each. Only 10 bulbs and 100 bulblets for sale. 
