I 
A BLUE BOOK OF RARE GLADS 
Dr. Scheer, with 
whom I am now 
engaged in the in¬ 
troduction of his 
seedlings, is a 
surgeon and phy¬ 
sician of Sheboy¬ 
gan, Wisconsin. 
He is well known 
in his profession 
and recently has 
become known for 
his unusually fine 
seedlings in the 
gladiolus field. Not 
only glad i o 1 us 
have received at¬ 
tention from Dr. 
Sheer, but several 
fine iris have been 
produced by him 
and for the last 
ten years or so he 
has also done ex¬ 
tensive breeding 
with hardy chrys¬ 
anthemums, pro¬ 
ducing several very 
early blooming va- DR. GEORGE H. SCHEER 
rieties in much improved colors. 
Dr. Scheer, whose work has been done with matematical 
precision and study, has used many varieties' of gladiolus in 
his breeding work, but has made it a point to study the 
genetics of the cross and the ancestry of the parentage first. 
While many hybridizers might make a hundred crosses a day 
Dr. Scheer has contented himself with a few and indeed over 
a season’s period of many hourse per day, he has never ex¬ 
ceeded 350 crosses for the year. This in itself is due to the 
study of the crosses and the careful work requ.red to accom¬ 
plish the completed cross. 
