KAYLOR NURSERIES, BLAINE, WASH. 
the petals being somewhat pointed and 
the florets wide open. 
In color it is almost a self of clear, 
deep crimson, favoring the maroon rath¬ 
er than the bright red side of crimson. 
There is none of the blotchiness of Mor¬ 
occo in its color. Position and texture 
are exceptionally good and in the field it 
stands up above most of those around it, 
has a strikingly brilliant individuality that 
catches the eye of every visitor. Small 
bulbs produce good spikes and bulblets 
germinate well. Visitors to our gardens 
who have admired this glad and have 
asked for prices as soon as introduced, 
will identify it as K 34-59. Following 
our former practice of holding a new var¬ 
iety until its worth has been proven thru 
tests, and a fair stock worked up, we are 
offering blooming size bulbs at $3.00 each. 
This price probably will be maintained in 
1939 as well as this year. 
Dragonette 
Decidedly different and out of the or¬ 
dinary is this small snapdragon-like glad. 
Some years ago a strange thing showed 
up in our seedling patch, a glad so small 
that one could cover it with a good sized 
thumb and a color so bad that it was 
awful. It was crossed on several others 
and Dragonette has Gloriana for a seed 
parent. It is mid season, has a 42 inch 
spike, a 20 inch flower head with six 
open. The color is true pink, irregularly 
marked with golden yellow bloaches. 
These are sometimes on the twilled tips 
of the petals and sometimes deeper down 
near the throat. The florets are deep 
cups resembling a snapdragon, hence its 
name. It wins as the smallest Glad in 
the show and in addition is a charming 
novelty. A rapid propagator, the price 
for 1938 is 50c per blooming size bulb. 
Helen Maurine 
Dr. Clarence M. Miller, Everett, Wash¬ 
ington, soent his boyhood days on a stock 
farm in Iowa. There he made a study of 
line breeding of farm animals and when, 
years later, he had an attack of Gladitis, 
he dug up this information and proceeded 
to apply it to Glad breeding. As a re¬ 
sult there are a number of fine things 
coming along for introduction during the 
next few years. But this year we are 
offering his first one under the above 
name. It is a mid season variety, quite 
tall with one of the best proportioned 
spikes we have ever seen. Carries about 
20 buds with eight or more open in per¬ 
fect placement. The florets are beauti- 
fulb^ shaped, .a warm flesh color with a 
yellow throat. Reliable grower and prop¬ 
agator so the price for 1938 will be $2.50 
for large and $2.00 for medium bulbs. 
No smalls for sale this year. 
Kaylor Glads "Win High Standing 
LESCHI 
From Glad-Winnings, official bulletin 
of the Iowa Gladiolus Society, for No¬ 
vember, 1937, we quote the following re¬ 
port of the symposium held by that so¬ 
ciety to determine the most popular var¬ 
ieties: 
“Leschi, by Kaylor, was awarded first 
place in the deep red class. Howard V. 
Wright', of Maryland, says it is the best 
dark red he has ever grown, and it cer¬ 
tainly is fine indeed. Purple Glory (K) 
is both mother and grandmother of Leschi. 
Semiahmoo was selected from chance seed¬ 
lings of Purple Glory, and the cross Purple 
Glory X Semiahmoo produced the sterile 
variety selected out and known as Leschi, 
named for a prominent Indian chief of 
early Washington history. But this is an¬ 
other story and I must not digress fur¬ 
ther. 
The reporter made a mistake in that 
Leschi is not a sterile variety and we 
have several fine things coming along 
from crosses made on it. Winning first 
place in its class is getting to be a habit 
with Leschi and the story of its beating 
other dark reds is repeated from all parts 
of the country. We have never claimed 
it to be the tallest dark red, some others 
beat it for reaching up towards the stars, 
but when it comes to clearness of color, 
quality of texture, position and reliability 
of performance other dark reds are play¬ 
ing second fiddle. We have yet to find 
a streaky or muddy Leschi, or one that 
does not have strength enough to carry 
its six to ten large wide open florets in 
an upright position. You do not have to 
stake it or place a shade over it to keep 
the sun from taking out its color. When 
you dig the bulbs you will find a nice lot 
of bulblets and they will grow. Also it 
is the only one that has a real maroon 
color with clear, clean black throat mark¬ 
ing. 
From one of our advanced fan cus¬ 
tomers comes the following: 
“I had another look at Black Opal 
this morning and it shows nine well ooen, 
and a lot more in various stages of start¬ 
ing to open. Then in the next block I met 
