GUIDEBOOK FOR 1939 
Page 13 
GROW SOME GLADIOLUS SEED 
All glad fans should try some gladiolus seed. Most advanced amateurs already do attempt 
some hybridizing with their newest varieties or most favored colors. Gladiolus seed broadcast 
or planted thickly in close rows, covered about ^ inch, kept on moist side and with at least 
partial shade, commonly produces bulbs 3^ to ^ inches diameter the first crop. Most of these 
bloom the second year and selections may be made on color values, the bulb selected and its 
bulblets thereafter grown under number pending full performance from a large bulb. 
All modern varieties were so produced, either from field collected or hand hybridized seed. 
We employed an expert hybridizer who made such crosses as we specified. In all cases we record 
the seed parent and in most cases the pollen parent. In 1938 we used for pollen parents, 
exclusively. Allegro, Black Opal, Crystal, Dazzler, Frostpink ornatus, Hindenburg’s Memory, 
Matterhorn, Peggy Lou, Pfitzer’s Erfolg, Rewi Fallu, Shirley Temple, St. Edward, Tunia’s 
Triumph, Tunia’s Blue and Walkover. 
We can supply limited quantities of seed crosses from at least four or five of the above named 
varieties on any of the seed parents listed below, but to detail them here would take several 
pages. For instance, if you select Tunia’s Triumph as a seed parent, you may suggest several 
possible pollen parents from the above list and likely we will have at least one of them crossed 
on the seed parent selected. If not, we likely have a pollen parent in the color chosen and will 
thus be able either exactly or closely match your wishes. 
With about the most exclusive collection of “world beaters’’ to be found in the U. S., we 
have excellent opportunity to produce intriguing crosses, which in turn should rather con¬ 
sistently produce seedlings above the average run of good standard varieties in each color 
class. They do for us. They should for you. The only trouble is that we are as likely as not 
to part with some outstanding sorts worthy of introduction as a named variety. That may 
be your luck. If you grow such from our seed we should like first opportunity to introduce 
them for you. 
No two seeds, even from the same cross and pod, produce flowers just alike, though they are 
likely to favor parent characteristics. In most instances, the pollen parent is newer and much 
more valuable than the seed parent, so the following method of pricing is reasonable. Try 
your luck and skill in selection of parents. Depending on stocks available we will try to be 
very liberal. 
How to order. Please do not ask for more than 10 to 20 seeds of a given cross. We will 
sell the seeds each at one third the list price of one bulblet of the seed parent, but not less 
than 2c each and minimum sale of 20c per cross. If the seed parent chosen is not cataloged, 
the seed of such seed parent will be 5c each. Seed prices are Net, no discounts. Canadian and 
other foreign customers do not need to secure a permit to import seeds. 
Seed parents available follow; 
Allegro 
Beacon 
Blue Beauty 
Blue Wonder 
Excell 
Frostpink ornatus 
Heiligtum 
Hindenburg’s Memory 
Icelander 
Josef Haydn 
Mac Jr. 2nd 
Mardi Gras 
Margaret Price 
Matterhorn 
Merry Widow 
Milford 
Millie Parks 
Miss America 
Miss New Zealand 
Oeganda 
Pink Selection 
Peggy Lou 
Rosemarie Pfitzer 
Rosa van Lima 
Shirley Temple 
Stapleford 
Sunset Cloud 
Takina 
Tunia’s Blue 
Tunia’s Triumph 
Vagabond Prince 
Vela 
CRYSTAL 
PEGGY LOU 
(both produced from No. 5 bulbs) 
