“Our bulb order came through fine, 
you very much” 
Your extras are very special ones and we thank 
—C. A. Johnson, Wis. 
he stated that it deserved a higher award and probably would get one this year 
if they had more bulbs to try out. 
Mr. Wright wrote Mr. Pruitt later that the Trial Grounds have never 
awarded a first class certificate but he thought that if he had five bulbs to try 
out next year, and they performed as well as the one bulb he had this past year, 
that MYRNA stood a very good chance of receiving a first class certificate. 
I cannot do better than to quote what Mr. F. W. Cassebeer of New York 
says. Mr. Cassebeer is a well known amateur who grows most of the new varieties 
and had a bulb of this seedling to try this past season. He writes, 
“In regard to the ruffled white seedling that Pruitt sent me for trial, I think it 
is a real topnotcher, easily one of the best new glads I saw this year. I would call it 
a sort of glorified Mary Elizabeth though it is distinctly whiter and with much less 
yellowish cream in the throat. Buds are greenish cream turning to almost pure white 
on opening. I found it just as white as Maid of Orleans though perhaps a little deeper 
in the throat. For me it grew over 5 ft. tall with a 25 inch flower head, 18 buds and 7-8 
fully expanded, well formed and beautifully spaced florets open at once, from a No. 2 
bulb. Upon digging the other day it had a fair amount of bulblets and the indications 
are that it is a good propagator .” 
See picture on page 26. 
PRICES: 
Large 
$4.00 each 
30.00 per 10 
Medium 
$3.00 each 
20.00 per 10 
Small 
$2.00 each 
15.00 per 10 
100.00 per 100 
Bulblets 
$ .50 each 
4.00 per 10 
25.00 per 100 
(Beatrice L. Palmer) (Com) (HG) Very early. The earliest 
* * variety in my garden this past season. A very fine bright rose 
with velvety cerise rose shading on lower petals. 5-7 medium size well placed 
and spaced blooms open on a good height, always straight stem. Makes a nice 
long stem for cutting. A vigorous healthy plant that produces large bulblets 
which germinate well. Fine color and being so extremely early I expect this to 
make a very popular florist flower. In fact it is the finest extremely early variety 
I know of. 
A very good point in connection with PRELUDE is that it blooms out quickly. 
Some early varieties produce some early blooms but keep straggling on for a 
month or more. Prelude does not do that but produces all blooms within a short 
time. 
PRICE $3.00 EACH FOR ANY SIZE. BULBLETS 50 CENTS EACH. 
(Marshall) (Ex) (Com) Late midseason. A wonderful- 
<JCiljqi.mil ly f m e bright though soft rose, shading somewhat lighter in 
upper throat and sometimes a blending of nearly white with the rose. Inconspicuous 
darker lines in the throat. 6-9 huge (6-7 inches or larger) heavily ruffled wide 
open blooms on a spike of 17-20 or more buds. Tall straight rugged healthy plant. 
Good propagator. A good keeper and shipper. 
At the Canadian National Exhibition Mr. Marshall exhibited a basket of 25 
spikes of SENSATION which won over fine baskets of PICARDY and others. 
In order to secure this basket of 25 blooms Mr. Marshall had to save his flowers 
for three or four days and had all told only 27 spikes to select from. 
Along with ALADDIN I consider SENSATION the most sensational variety 
that I have seen since Picardy was introduced. SENSATION is bound to be¬ 
come a very popular exhibition and commercial glad. All the growers are looking 
for a rose colored variety to supplement PICARDY as a cut flower variety and 
SENSATION comes nearer to this than anything else I have seen. For exhibition 
it is one you have got to have in order to win in the rose or pink class and for 
the home garden it will be grown by everyone when stock is available. See picture 
on back cover. 
From a past-President of the Canadian Gladiolus Society: 
“/ have seen several times Mr. C. C. Marshall's seedling gladiolus which is being 
“Have had very good success with all the bulbs you sent me.” 
—Samuel Burgess, Penn. 
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