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THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
Gertrude Swenson (Swenson)—Ballarat, 
'28, ’29. Victoria, ’32. 
Grand Slam (Salbach)—San Leandro, ’32. 
Icelander —(Evams)—Ohio, ’37. 
Mary Elizabeth (Dr. H. W. Stevens)— 
N. E. G. S., ’30. 
Merry Widow (Evans)—Mahoning G. S., 
'31. 
Milford (Rides)—N.Z.G.S. (Canterbury) 
’34. 
New Era (Ellis)—Ohio, ’35. 
Pacemaker (Evans)—Ohio-Mahoning, ’34. 
Peggy Lou (Wilson)—Pa. G. S., ’37, Mah., 
’37. 
Rawhiti (N. Z.)—N. Z. G. S. (Christ¬ 
church), ’35. 
Rewi Fallu (Fallu)—So. Australia G.S., 
’32. 
Tunia’s Triumph (E. Both)—So. Au¬ 
stralia G. S., ’34. 
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Whero (Burns)—Normandy, ’33; Wan¬ 
ganui, N. Z., ’33. 
In the two Champion lists above set forth, 
we have grown the following sorts (catalogued 
some of them for a time), Canberra, Cory¬ 
phee, Fairy Tale (Marchen), Heritage, 
Maunga, Sunnyside, Tanui and Grand Slam, 
but for one reason or another that we have 
considered sufficient, have discarded them. 
CASH DISCOUNTS 
We have adopted an important change of 
policy with respect to discounts, which we 
anticipate will be to the advantage of our 
customers, especially to those placing their 
orders before February 15th. Please give 
this subject, explained on page 11 hereof, 
your close attention. 
GLADIOLUS SEED 
Not for several years have we been willing 
to part with any of our gladiolus seed. This 
year we will share them with you. Growing 
seed offers unparalleled excitement to the 
glad fan. See page 13 hereof. 
AT THE SHOWS 
It is difficult to appraise the attitude of 
the reader respecting reception of data re¬ 
lating our personal winnings at shows, or 
even that of our customers. We have about 
140 recent letters from customers reporting 
substantial winnings with our bulbs at last 
year’s major gladiolus shows. Undoubtedly 
there were many others. From year to year 
we have been shortening this discussion. 
Partly because interest centers chiefly upon 
what variety w^on rather than upon who won. 
So, respecting 1938, suffice it to say that 
one of our good grower customers in the East, 
who buys quantities of large bulbs for show 
purposes from us, topped all others for sweep- 
stakes in the spike-color class, open division, 
at three of the largest shows in the East, 
N.E.G.S., Conn, and Metro. A novice 
exhibitor over in Ontario purchased some 
heavy bulbs of two varieties from us, namely 
Frank J. McCoy and Mary Elizabeth. He 
took his blooms to the Canadian National 
Show and the best he could do with these 
varieties was “Grand Champion Bloom of 
the Show’’ with the first and “Most Beautiful 
Bloom in the Show’’ (a new sweepstakes 
award) with the second. Our redoubtable 
advanced amateur customer, Mrs. John 
Sherwin, Willoughby, Ohio, whose blooms 
have been a valuable educational asset to 
many A.G.S., Ohio and other shows for 
years, repeated in Ohio for Amateur Point 
Achievement Award and duplicated the 
achievement in the Ind. G.S. show, securing 
24 blue ribbons in the 37 spike-color classes. 
Her entries in these shows were valuable 
because they consisted mainly of recently 
introduced varieties and enabled other 
growers, exhibitors and visitors (many for 
the first time) to see superlatively grown spikes 
of Aladdin, Peggy Lou, Miss New Zealand, 
Beacon, Vagabond Prince, Stapleford, Shirley 
Temple, Allegro, Milford, Mardi Gras, Joh. 
S. Bach, Sunset Cloud, Rudolph Serkin, 
Mason’s Yellow, etc. 
At the Indiana G. S. ’38 show we won the 
Growers Achievement Trophy for most points 
in the First Division. We obtained 18 firsts 
in the 3 spike classes and all of our 2nds and 
3rds were behind our other winning varieties. 
We also won the Ind. Soc. Seedling Achieve¬ 
ment Trophy with 30 out of a possible 36 
points in the spike seedling classes, together 
with 3 Silver and 1 Bronze Ind. Soc. medals 
for best Exh. sdlg., 3 spike (83553) and 1 spike 
(7356), best Dec. sdlg., 3 spike (73567) and 
best Sm. Dec. sdlg., 3 spike. The quality of 
the seedlings mentioned by number indicates 
introduction as soon as sufficient stocks are 
available. The 83553 winner appeals to us 
to be a distinct advancement in the N.E.G.S. 
No. 10 orange salmon classification. 
Among varieties winning a total of 30 blue 
ribbons for us at the Ind. show w'ere many 
new ones, including Peggy Lou, Blue Wonder, 
Tunia’s Triumph, Raysheen, Frostpink 
ornatus, Jersey Cream, Matterhorn, Dazzler, 
Leona, Mac Jr., 2nd, Oeganda, Bit o’Heaven. 
At the Ohio show, held in conjunction with 
the state fair at Columbus, we won, as usual, 
the Commercial Display Sweepstakes Medal 
Award and the Grand Commercial Division 
Achievement Silver Medal Award. Our 
Picardy entry was Sectional Exh. Type 
Champion, winning the N.E.G.S. Silver Medal. 
Our Wasaga entry was Sectional Dec. Cham¬ 
pion. Our spike of Dazzler, which we re¬ 
tained in our Commercial display, without 
