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THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
Heritage —Wise., ’34. 
Joh. S. Bach —Vancouver, ’35. 
Maid of Orleans —Mah. G.S., '36. 
Margaret Fulton —Pa., ’36. 
Maunga —-Miramar, N. Z., ’34. 
Minuet —Iowa G. S., ’35.. 
Miss New Zealand— Marlborough H. S., 
’32, ’33; Ballarat, ’35; Dunedin, ’35; N. Z. G. 
5., ’36. 
Mother Machree —Ohio, ’32; Conn., ’35; 
111., ’36. 
Mr. Fred’k. Christ— Ohio Fair, ’32. 
Ballarat, ’32. 
Mr. W. H. Phipps— Ill., ’32; N. E. G. S., 
’34; Grant’s Pass, ’36. 
Our Selection— Ballarat (2nd show), ’32; 
Malvern, ’35. 
Picardy— C. G. S., ’32, ’34, ’35, ’36; Cal¬ 
gary, ’34, ’35; A. G. S., ’35, ’36; Empire S. G. 
5., (N. Y.), ’35, ’36; Port Arthur, ’35; Minn., 
’35; Winnipeg, ’33, ’36; Conn., ’36. 
Pititi —Papanui, ’34. 
Queen Mary —Winnipeg, ’34. 
Red Lory— Wash., ’35; East Bay, ’36; 
Aukland, G. S., ’36. 
Red Phipps —Century of Progress, ’33. 
Rosemarie Pfitzer —Winnipeg, ’35; Wools 
ton, ’36. 
Star of Bethlehem —Minn., ’36. 
Sunnyside —At six shows, Australia, '31; 
Ballarat, '35 (2nd show). 
Tanui —Christchurch, '33. 
CHAMPION SEEDLING BLOOMS 
Following seedling champions were not 
merely winners in their classes of certain 
types. They were champion seedlings, all 
types competing. Not many Prize Schedules 
make provision for this competition, it being 
most popular, apparently, in Ohio, Australia 
and New Zealand. 
Blue Wonder —(E. Both) So. Australia 
G. S., ’35. (Was also runner-up for open 
grand champion.) 
Fairy Tale (Pfitzer)—Haarlem, ’31. (Was 
also grand champion.) 
Frostpink ornatus (Evans)—Mahoning 
G. S., ’33. 
Gertrude Swenson (Swenson)—Ballarat, 
’28, ’29. Victoria, ’32. 
Grand Slam (Salbach)—San Leandro, ’32. 
Mary Elizabeth (Dr. H. W. Stevens)— 
N. E. G. S., ’30. 
Merry Widow (Evans)—Mahoning G. S., 
’31. 
Milford (Rides)—N.Z.G.S. (Canterbury) 
’34. 
New Era (Ellis)—Ohio, ’35. 
Pacemaker (Evans)—Ohio-Mahoning, ’34. 
Rawhiti (N. Z.)—N. Z. G. S. (Christ¬ 
church), ’35. 
Tunia’s Triumph (E. Both)—So. Au¬ 
stralia G. S., ’34. 
Whero (Burns)—Normandy, ’33; Wau- 
ganui, N. Z., ’33. 
OUR CUSTOMERS WIN 
We mean customers who have been buying 
about 90% or better of their annual bulb re¬ 
quirements from us, who use our approved 
methods of culture, who annually “lick the 
thrips,” who take their blooms to shows with¬ 
in reach and “bring home the bacon.” 
A. G. S., ’34. In the National Show at 
Chicago, Century of Progress, 1934, one of 
our novice customers, then a novice exhibitor, 
Dr. Ralph C. Pease, who conducts a famous 
Diagnostic Clinic at Chardon, Ohio, and who 
buys substantially all his bulbs from us, 
proved to be the sensation of the second period 
exhibition of the seven-day show. Competing 
against all comers with three spikes in the 
“open to all” Exh. Type Division, he collected 
34 points to his nearest rival’s 26. All told, 
he won more points than any other amateur 
in the whole seven days. His exhibition 
spikes, wherever entered, were substantially 
unbeatable and he brought six spikes of Frank 
McCoy, any one of which dwarfed the best 
spikes of Picardy (his own, incidentally, win¬ 
ners in the Salmon Pink class). One of these 
spikes of Frank McCoy was awarded the Dr. 
A. C. Wood Challenge Cup as Grand Champ¬ 
ion spike of the show. See illustration. 
Ohio-Mahoning, ’34. The joint Ohio- 
Mahoning Gladiolus Societies’ Exhibition at 
Ravenna, Ohio, 1934, was the best state or 
Regional show we have ever had the pleasure 
of witnessing prior to the Ohio, ’35. Quality 
throughout of national show calibre and 
entries in color classes in both amateur and 
professional divisions frequently numbered in 
the forties, fifties and sixties. 
Dr. Pease proved unbeatable in the amateur 
division here, also, going well in the lead for 
most points, with several more of our cus¬ 
tomers following. 
A. G. S., ’35. They will certainly have to 
take that National Show farther away than 
South Bend and Chicago if exhibitors other 
than our neighboring Ohio customers are to 
have a chance! 
A small group of our advanced amateur 
customers (all of them worthy members of 
the Ohio State Gladiolus Society), ably head¬ 
ed by Dr. Pease, who alone won 17 firsts, won 
147 points to 24 by all others combined, 
amassing 86% of all the points awarded in 
the 3-spike color classes of the Advanced 
Amateur Division! If these facts could not 
be easily proven, we would not state them, of 
course. 
Ill., ’35. Dr. Pease, having won the Ill. 
Society sponsored Challenge Cup in '34 when 
Ill. participated with the A. G. S. at Century 
of Progress with Frank J. McCoy as Cham¬ 
pion Bloom, the Ill. boys told Dr. Pease they 
would never let him do that again in their 
baliwick. They dated their show to coincide 
