Kunderd 
Stand Supreme 
The selection of a new gladiolus is not something that just happens. Plans were laid for 
that new variety years in advance. It has had to meet the most exacting tests. Thousands 
of crosses are made annually and the seed planted the following Spring. Then it takes 
several years before these little seedlings reward us with blooms. It is here that expert 
judgment is needed to pass an opinion on the seedlings in flower. From an entire 
season's crop of new seedlings scarcely a hundred or two will get by the first season. 
For several years after this, they are judged and rejudged until final selections are made. 
Only a very few which pass the gruelling tests will ever be considered worthy of 
becoming a new variety. At Goshen, we devote about ten acres of ground exclusively to 
our Trial Gardens from which come ail these lovely new Kunderd Gladioli. 
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