NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 
5 
Outstanding Foreign Varieties of the Past Season 
The past season being one of rather even temoerature and with the rain 
well distributed throughout the season, spikes typical of the varieties were 
plentiful giving a good opportunity to judge the merits of the new originations. 
There is a decided demand for the extra early varieties; the first of the new 
ones to bloom here being Gladys Clegg, from Symons in Australia, a light 
apricot with a ‘strong garnet blotch. The blooms are wide open and well 
placed against the willowy spikes, about eight will open at once and it is 
a good propagator. Zauberflote, (Pfitzer) was another extra early variety 
and made fine straight spikes, eight large flowers of heavy substance. The 
color is peach rose with a contrasting red blotch and was a winner at the 
last two New York shows, a fine addition to the extra early class. 
Among the whites, the older Star of Bethlehem was outstandingly good 
from all sizes of bulbs. Pfitzer has added a couple of new whites that seem 
interesting; Heiligtum has a cream throat similar to Maid of Orleans and the 
flowers are a bit winged. Last season Matterhorn was introduced, which is 
a pure white and will open about seven fine blooms at once. White Triump- 
hator, originated by Salman in Holland, proved to be as good and as early 
as one would expect from the awards it had received at Haarlem; the spikes 
were tall and straight and in spite of the many good whites today, this 
variety stood out. Maunga, the new white from New Zealand, is probably 
the largest white of them all. It would seem that with so many good white 
varieties there must be much similarity but each has its individual type. 
King Coyle (Mair) seems the best of the rose reds; the spikes carry twenty- 
two buds with ten open. Daily Record, also from Scotland, proved a velvety 
crimson with a white blotch. The plant is a strong tall grower and produced 
many fine exhibition spikes during the season. Mair's Medalist seemed one 
of his best recent ones. The spikes were of fine type and the cerise color 
with darker edges and a white blotch made them most impressive and would 
seem to well deserve the high award given it by the British Gladiolus Society. 
In the red shades easily the finest glad we bloomed last season was 
Errey Brothers' Black Opal it is a dark crimson red, the flowers are per¬ 
fectly placed on fine symmetrical exhibition spikes and with ten leathery 
textured blooms open at once makes it a most outstanding addition to the 
present day gladiolus. Falcon and the even newer Glowing Embers are two 
fine oranges that do not burn in the sun as did their Mrs. S. A. Errey and should 
be very popular in this rather weak color class. A new coppery salmon that 
makes huge flowers is Errey's Narbethong; eight will open on a big spike 
and will prove of much interest to those interested in the big ones. Mrs. 
lulyan, the originator of Miss New Zealand, the first giant variety which is 
now widely known in this country having been exhibited at most of the 
large shows during the past two years, has introduced a fine variety named 
Tasman. The color is begonia pink with a reddish feather in the throat 
offset by a yellow dart; about eight large flat blooms are open at once and 
are well placed against the tall straight spikes. This variety seems assured 
a place with New Zealand's very best. 
In Australia the past season the champion seedling at two of the largest 
shows was Dossie Clegg, originated by I. W. Clegg, and a vase of it was 
one of the outstanding exhibits of the past season in Ballarat. It is a pure 
pink and spikes of it gave twelve or more open blooms perfectly placed on 
