A BLUE BOOK OF RARE GLADS 
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have the help of each and every grower in the country toward 
the fulfillment of these conditions. 
CONDITIONS OF SALE 
(a) No Scheer variety shall be exchanged or traded for, 
but shall be offered for cash only, unless proper credit terms 
are made. 
(b) The purchaser agrees under this sale that he shall for 
a period of three years after purchase (including year of 
purchase) ask the same price for stock that is set* and decided 
upon by the introducers. This price shall be set August 1 of 
each year and a copy shall be forwarded to all customers. 
After this period of three years the holder of stock may sell 
at whatever price he desires. We intend to cooperate to the 
fullest extent toward helping each customer realize as much 
as possible from his investment, therefore we ask these con¬ 
ditions be adhered to. 
(c) No bulblets shall be offered of any Sheer originations 
for a period of two years. We feel that the rapid downfall of 
the value of such varieties as Picardy vlas due in a large 
(measure to the immediate offering of bulblets. This condition 
may be changed if the introducers offer bulblets at any time 
in this period. 
CHIEF RED BIRD 
SCHEER—1937—(33C15-02) 
Mr. W. H. Phipps x Commander Koehl 
Type: Large Exhibition Height: cut spike, 40 in. average 
Number open: 10 
This variety, while being a fine exhibition or bench flower, 
should prove most valuable in the commercial field, so badly 
in need now of a good satisfactory clean red. Chief Red Bird 
will average ten open on field grown spikes, spikes that are 
adequately long for all ordinary cutting. The color :‘s out¬ 
standing in its class and is really a heart-satisfying red. 
Most reds have some orange in their makeup. Chief Red 
Bird is of a rich scarlet red, verging on crimson; there is NO 
orange in it. There are no marks. It is SELF red. The florets 
are wide open and in line like that of its parent, Phipps. This 1 
variety is EARLY. You commercial cut flower men know what 
