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COLONIAL GARDENS 
4£llOOIl of Hroinoil (Zimmer) (Medium Decorative) 
Beautiful lavender with cream throat. This glad is ideal for 
floral work, possessing a fine wiry stem and opening six to eight 
blooms at a time. Until I saw some beautiful baskets of this 
variety this past summer, I did not fully realize how valuable a 
glad this really is. 
Graded Dozen: 33c Half-Dozen: 17c 
R<M*ado (Palmer) (Exhibition) 
Smoky rose red on grey ground flecked slate and scarlet at the 
edges. Opens 10-11 florets. 
For sale next year. 
R©COV©I*y (Blake) (Large Decorative) 
Subdued salmon-pink self (not rose as sometimes stated). A 
gladiolus that opens about eight well-placed florets on a strong 
straight spike. Might be described as an improved Longfellow. 
Graded Dozen: $1.25 Half-Dozen: 65c 
Rod Admiral (Roozen) (Large Decorative) 
Tall velvety scarlet with deeper throat. Roundish, recurved 
petals. 
Graded Dozen: 60c Half-Dozen: 30c 
Rod dory (Piper-Ellis) (Large Decorative) 
Good ruffled red. A “sport” of Purple Glory. 
Graded Dozen: 50c Half-Dozen: 25c 
Rod Lory (Errey) (Exhibition) 
Giant rose-red with purple throat. Often sensational on the 
show table, but actually a bit garish. 
Graded Dozen: 50c Half-Dozen: 25c 
Rod Phipps (Briggs) (Large Decorative) 
Light scarlet or deep pink of translucent texture. 
Graded Dozen: 33c Half-Dozen: 17c 
Rod Pirate (Geiser) (Medium Decorative) 
Rose-red blending to a small throat mark of almost black. This 
glad possesses the most lustrous silken sheen of any rose-red 
variety. Well grown it is very beautiful. Strongly recommended. 
Graded Dozen: 40c Half-Dozen: 20c 
Regent (Palmer) (Exhibition) 
Deep scarlet of velvety texture. Seems to consist of two inter- 
flecking shades. 
Graded Quarter-Dozen: $6.25 
Glads as a Hobby 
If you have the “collector’s instinct” and collect stamps, 
antiques, or any of the thousand and one items which are 
the object of some collector’s zeal, but have never consid¬ 
ered flowers in this light, may we suggest that glads 
possess to a marked degree the quality of interesting varia¬ 
tion necessary to give zest to collecting? Many of our cus¬ 
tomers take pride in the possession of a collection of 50 , 
100, or often more carefully selected varieties of glads, all 
grown under label and given the best of culture. We 
heartily recommend such labeling to those who have not 
done so before. While there are many types of markers 
in vogue, one of the most inexpensive and substantial may 
be made from a bundle of laths, planed and cut in halves 
or in thirds right at your local lumberyard (cost: about lc 
each). You will find that growing your glads under label 
will just about double the enjoyment you get out of them. 
Rosollllioil (Baerman) (Exhibition) 
Vivid scarlet of glossy texture. Ruffled and slightly laciniated. 
We have had this with nine five and one-half inch florets open at 
one time on flowerheads thirty-three and one-half inches long 
(measuring from the lowest floret to the tip of the spike). We 
have heard of gladiolus flowerheads thirty-six inches long after 
the spike had bloomed out (considerable elongation occurs during 
the blooming out). As far as we know a flowerhead length of 
thirty-three and one-half inches when the first bloom is still fresh 
must come pretty close to being a record. Resolution is an excep¬ 
tionally beautiful variety. 
Graded Quarter-Dozen: $22.50 
Reverie (Palmer) (Medium Decorative) 
Sister seedling of Wasaga with Lotus coloring. Larger than 
Lotus but less waxy. 
Graded Half-Dozen: 89c Quarter-Dozen: 45c 
Rewl Fallll (Fallu) (Exhibition) 
Giant red with heavy, round, bell-like florets of lustrous sheen. 
Named after the originator’s son, who was given the name of 
a Maori chieftain. 
Graded Quarter-Dozen: $22.50 
Rita Reck (Fischer) (Large Decorative) 
Pale pink with five or seven short red lines radiating from the 
throat. Chastely beautiful. 
Graded Dozen: 50c Half-Dozen: 25c 
Robert Burns (Christ) (Large Decorative) 
Fine deep blue of unusual size and vigor. 
Graded Quarter-Dozen: $45.00 
Roi Albert (Lemoine) (Large Decorative) 
Novel old rose with a triple blotch of scarlet on cream on 
salmon. There is nothing quite like it. 
Graded Dozen: 33c Half-Dozen: 17c 
HosaillOIld (G. W. Wright) (Large Decorative) 
A Triumph seedling of similar round form and velvety texture 
but leaning a bit more toward the pink. It seems also to open 
more florets than its parent (though they are a trifle smaller) and 
to have a longer stem. A beautiful variety of great promise. 
For sale next year. 
Rosemarie Pfitzer (Pfitzer) (Large Decorative) 
White overlaid with delicate fleckings of light pink. Daintily 
ruffled. In many seasons this glad blooms almost a pure white. 
Graded Half-Dozen: 90c Quarter-Dozen: 45c 
Rose Wings (Crow) (Medium Decorative) 
Charmingly ruffled rose-red. A fine cutter. 
Graded Quarter-Dozen: 50c 
Royal Gold (Pfitzer) (Large Decorative) 
Large light yellow. Similar to DO-X, but has a longer spike. 
For sale next year. 
Rudolph Serkill (Pfitzer) (Large Decorative) 
Deep violet of glossy texture. This variety is nearer purple 
than the other so-called dark “blues”. 
Graded Half-Dozen $4.50 Quarter-Dozen: $2.40 
