A. E. KUNDERD, GOSHEN, INDIANA. 
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Ruffled Gladioli 
At Kendallville, Ind. (and Van Wert, Ohio), A. E. Kunderd has for years 
been breeding and selecting Gladioli with a view to the development and fixing 
of the type of flower illustrated in the accompanying reproductions from photo¬ 
graphs. It will be seen that the petals are ruffled, unlike any Gladiolus heretofore 
known. Mr. Kunderd believes that he is well under way to the development of 
the most magnificent type of this flower, as these varieties are now well established 
in character, and he has others in which the development is even more marked. 
The plant is strong and it is said that flowers over five inches in diameter 
have been produced. The ruffling is even more apparent in the natural flower 
than it is in the photographic reproductions. The flutings are up to five-eighths 
of an inch deep. 
A bulb of one of the varieties described was sent to Luther Burbank and 
was returned in November, 1910, with 142 cormels. 
Mr. Kunderd also is at work on some other types. One is a flower that he 
describes as saucer-shaped, the petals being all of about the same proportions 
and opening so that the tube is short. He is hybridizing to put the ruffle also on 
this form of flower. He also has a type in which the flowers are well distributed 
around the stem, with blooms as upright as tuberoses, and with long tubes. In 
this form all six petals are exactly alike. This class comes in light colors, some 
being solid colors and others having all the petals blotched. Other sorts on 
which Mr. Kunderd is at work provides still other interesting variations. 
(Taken from “The Weekly Florists’ Review,’’ January 23, 1908.) 
Opinions of “Kunderdn Glory” From Leading 
Authorities: 
DR. W. VAN FLEET , Expert in charge of U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, formerly the great Horticulture 
Editor of the “Rural New Yorker,” Originator of Princeps, etc., says: 
“I am glad to hear of your continued success with the Ruffled Gladiolus. 
The one you sent me two years ago (Kunderdi Glory) is very beautiful 
indeed; good color, fine spike and substance, and exquisite finish.” 
MESSRS. T. C. THURLOW’S SONS, West Newbury, Mass. (“The 
Peony Kings”), on December 25, 1915, wrote: “We liked the Gladioli 
you sent us last spring very much, especially the ‘Kunderdi Glory,’ 
which is one of the finest light-colored ones we have ever seen.” 
L. MERTON GAGE, Ex-Secretary of The American Gladiolus 
Society, wrote us in the summer of 1909: “‘Ruffled’ is in bloom. 
‘Grand’ does not begin to express it. It is the ‘sans panel’ of all 
Gladioli.” 
S. E. SPENCER, Woburn, Mass., Member of The American 
Gladiolus Society, says: “They are the wonder of the whole neighbor¬ 
hood,” etc., etc. 
