KAYLOR NURERIES, BLAINE, WASH. 
en the pink, and here is Sunset Cloud. 
Fine performer, plenty of large florets 
a fine dependable sort with great cut 
flower quality. Oregon, of the same col¬ 
or combination, is a larger flower. Queen 
Helen II carries a shade of yellow in 
addition to the pink. Some folks over¬ 
look a good bet by passing this one up. 
The earliest in this class is Maid of 
Honor, a delicately blended apple blos¬ 
som that we had for the first time last 
year. We fell for her. A fit running 
mate is Sweetheart, not quite so large or 
early as Maid of Honor and a little 
deeper in the pink tones, but both are 
well named. 
LIGHT SALMON PINKS 
Just where light pinks end and the 
light salmons start is hard to determine. 
That’s true in nearly all color classes, 
but here we want to introduce Helen 
Maurine, a -new one from Dr. C. M. Mill¬ 
er, Everett, Washington. “Doc” calls 
this a flesh color, but some folks have 
jaundice and there is no jaundice in this 
one. Tall, stately, eight large florets open 
in a warm live creamy-light-salmon-pink 
Helen Maurine is very early and should 
like her complexion. Picardy, known the 
World around, varies in shading, some¬ 
times a light and sometimes a deep salm¬ 
on pink. Debonaire, about as tall as 
Picardy, has a lighter background, but 
the flecking gives it a deeper tone, while 
Duna, a medium sized decorative, has a 
decidedi touch of buff-pink., Mildred) 
Louise, much larger than Duna, has re¬ 
ceived a little strawberry touch to its 
pink. Major Edward Bowes was a new 
one in our garden last summer and is 
well worth a place among the good ones. 
It is called a bittersweet pink, a shade of 
salmon, and has some flecking of a deep¬ 
er tone. Tall and strong with plenty open. 
DEEP SALMON PINKS 
These retain a touch of orange or yel¬ 
low in their shades, but the pink is more 
pronounced as in that tall growing Aus¬ 
tralian, Corangomite. Retah Schell is a 
better representative of this class, carry¬ 
ing, as it does, orange shades in the 
throat that gives the flower a glow. This 
one has won so many blue ribbons that 
we have lost count of them. It is rated 
a decorative but sometimes passes the 
4 *4-inch size and becomes exhibition. Up 
to 16 open at once, one of the tallest 
^rowers we have, with a record of re¬ 
liability hard to beat. Rapture, another 
tall grower, should be placed here.* It 
is good. Recovery, still holding some 
traces of orange, turns more to the red. 
It has a fine record as a hot weather 
resister. Smiling Maestro, a large wide 
onen sort, has considerable orange in its 
pink and its right place in the color 
scheme is hard to determine. Moving 
closer to real pink we find Mrs. Lulu 
Hunt. Early producer of wide open large 
florets and a fine performer even from 
medium sized bulbs. Miss New Zealand 
is the largest in this class. Very tall, 
large florets, deep salmon with an oc¬ 
casional fleck. Too big for the stem so 
watch that it does not fall over. Need 
not be afraid of falling over with Mar¬ 
garet Fulton. A fine decorative with 
plenty of deep, cup-shaped florets, clear, 
c’ean, waxy self color and one of our fav¬ 
orites. Heritage, a late bloomer of large 
size with a white throat is a little soft. 
Pruitt’s new Ellen Marie, while hard to 
describe, perhaps belongs in the deep 
salmon pink class, but its color is so alive 
that it might be moved into the light- 
red-buff section. Plant it deep and it 
will give good spikes with about six open. 
Fortune, a new one from Brauer, is al¬ 
most pure pink, a shade lighter than 
Margaret Fulton. Large size on tall 
spikes. It has two narrow red lines in 
the throat. 
ROSE PINKS 
These may be said to have a touch 
of lavender in their pink. In some this 
deepens to purple tones. Alayne, medium 
tall with florets close-set on the spike, is 
a late bloomer of delicate rose-pink shad¬ 
ing. Early Melody is larver and earlier 
with more lavender tones and some fleck¬ 
ing, while Early Rose, the earliest and 
largest of all in this class, has a white 
throat that deepens the rose tones of the 
outer petals. In Littlejohn the rose deep¬ 
ens to red-rose; a cup-shaped flower that 
is very ruffled. Aflame is called begonia 
rose, a strong rose faintly orange. Very 
large, flaring florets with pointed petals. 
Very much deeper rose with purplish 
tints is Pirate, a big, bold chap, properly 
named. Bagdad is more subdued with a 
shade of smoky orange over its large 
flowers, while in Dream of Beauty we 
have the deepest of rose shades. It is 
medium tall, has very poor placement but 
a color all its own. Leona is a new rich 
rose-red introduced by Pruitt. While we 
have had but little experience with it, it 
seems destined for a future. Six cup¬ 
shaped florets on a wiry stem with 
plenty more to open. 
RED 
Oh Boy! What a squabble starts 
when we talk about reds! All right let’s 
start the argument with Aldebaran. Some 
folks call it a very deep pink but we 
censider it a light but brilliant pinkish- 
scarlet. It has a light throat that in¬ 
creases the brilliancy. Grows tall spikes 
with six 6-inch wide open florets and is 
famous for standing dry weather. Place a 
vase of these with a light behind if you 
want a new thrill from Glads. Aldebaran 
is an Emile Aubrun seedling, half brother 
