A BLUE BOOK OF RARE GLADS 
and develop glads for that purpose, or the glads of today will 
eventually become common and cheap and possibly be more 
of a detriment to the industry than a, boon. My own sugges¬ 
tion is that we. each of us, try to get something more 
from blooms than just the fun of growing them. Have you 
ever taken a fine spike of Sisson and not : ced the wonderful 
blending of color therein? Or Wasaga? Or Vesper Bells? 
Or any one of a hundred other fine clear colored g ads that 
are now setting a standard apart from size, form, number 
open, and giant growth? Try it some time. Try using these 
flowers with other colors, in various bowls and vases, using 
blue delphiniums with Duna, red asters with Bagdad, pink 
asters or white with Maid of Orleans, green huckleberry with 
salmon shades, yellow roses with Pelegrina or Blue Admiral, 
white roses with Morocco or Moorish King, and a hundred 
other combination that I could mention. 
You have only to try these combinations to see that we 
must reach eternally for Beauty. WE MUST BECOME 
COLOR CONSCIOUS. We must learn to LOVE flowers for 
themselves. We must set a new STANDARD for new intro¬ 
ductions. We must and WILL demand beauty in color, form 
and size. A new era is here. We must face it with BEAUTY. 
TESTIMONIAL LETTERS 
I am here presenting to you some letters from men who are 
acquainted with glads of all sources and who have visited 
the seedling patch of Dr. Scheers. I think you will be inter¬ 
ested to read what thev have to say. 
QUOTED FROM LETTERS 
Nov. 18, 1936. 
Someone has said that if a man will but make a better 
mousetrap than his neighbor, the world will make a beaten 
path to his door. 
If we ?nay apply the same axiom to the gladiolus, then the 
path to the seedling garden of Geo. H. Scheer will indeed be 
well worn, when news of his achievements becomes known to 
the members of the glad world. For several years the good 
Doctor has been quietly conducting his hybridization work 
