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RIVERVIEW GARDENS, ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Golden Chimes and Cadillac are old favorites. For color, La Fiesta is the brightest 
in the oranges, although the flowers are only of medium size. Bit o" Heaven is 
excellent. Barcarole and Unca look promising. More on them next year. 
Minuet is still the finest of the lavender varieties. Mine. Schumann-Heink 
at a short distance resembles an orchid, markings and all. It is a Diener variety 
that has been in commerce for some time, but is still very scarce. If you like 
ruffled varieties, King Arthur with its graceful spikes is outstanding. I sola Bella, 
Pfitzer’s new lavender-pink, always produces good spikes. Beautiful Ohio is a 
little off-shade of lavender, somewhat on the rosy side. 
The blue and dark violet class is progressing more and more each year, with 
the finest varieties being of Rev. Christ originations. His Blue Admiral is being 
admired by everyone, but his Robert Burns is another step forward. Blue Domina 
and Bonnie Blue are two pleasing and different shades of light blue. Of the foreign 
varieties Blue Beauty is our favorite. We like Max Reger for real beauty. Sharp 
white lines in the throat give the flower the resemblance of a beautiful blue butter¬ 
fly. Blue Wonder and TuniaJs Blue have bloomed for us the past two seasons but 
must prove themselves valuable before they will be listed. 
Picardy in the pinks still stands supreme. One of the most-talked-of new 
introductions is Peggy Lou. Its color is a little more rosy than Picardy, the 
flowers just as large and with perfectly straight spikes. What more can one 
ask? The flowers on Ellen Marie were as large as anything we have seen. Miss 
New Zealand and New Era were both good as usual. For many years Dream 
o’ Beauty was the best in the dark rose-pink class—it still is fine; but Early Rose, 
Rose Premier and Indian Princess are three fine new varieties. In the pure pinks, 
Phyllis McQuiston is still tops with us. Don’t overlook Margaret Fulton; it is 
one of the most dependable glads grown. Good pinks are almost endless; we have 
Serenity for its delicate coloring; Conquest for sheer beauty; Zauberflote for early 
flowering and back to Picardy for an all-around good glad. 
Robert, the First, introduced by us four years ago, has received favorable 
comment throughout the season. It was winner in the rose-pink class at the 
Minnesota State Fair again this year. Every bulb produces a fine spike and not 
a crooked spike have we ever found. It is our leading late cut flower variety. 
The price is within reach of everyone and all we ask you to do is to try it. 
If you are looking for the odd and unusual we recommend Hinemoa, a choco¬ 
late brown; Jalna, terra cotta; Oddity, a smoky red with a silvery blotch; Rose 
Lady, ashes of roses; and Zuni, a combination of salmon and slate. 
We receive many questions each year regarding glads for cut flowers so the 
following may be of some help to those who are interested. The prerequisites of 
a good cut flower variety are numerous. It should have good length of stem, 
flowers in proportion to the spike, clear color, healthy and fast grower and a good 
producer of bulblets. A self color is preferred over mixed colors, the lighter 
shades over the darker. White, pink, and lavender are the leading colors with 
smaller amounts of orange, yellow, blue and red. In the whites, White Orchid 
and Mrs. Ray D. Chase are fine earlies. Star of Bethlehem and Maid of Orleans 
for midseason and Mary Elizabeth and Carmen Sylva for late. Purity is fine, 
but too expensive for general use. Al Smith, Red Phipps and Johann S. Bach are 
three fine early reds with Dr. Bennett for midseason and Del Ray for late. Such 
varieties as Commander Koehl and Morocco are too dark for all-around use. Gold 
Eagle, Golden Chimes, Cadillac and Golden Cup are the leading yellows. Bright - 
