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edges but usually it does; its type of bloom is my ideal, it grows straight, and increases easily 
for us although the bulblets are usually small. QUEEN MARY still is grand but needs the 
extra good culture of a glad enthusiast. Velthuy’s P. D. VAN MOURIK, white with a wine 
red blotch, is the best we have in this class. GREEN LICFIT is a very ruffled creamy white 
quite green in the bud and having a greenish cast to the flowers; it was fine the past seasoaa 
and probably attracted as much attention as anything in the garden. ALLAN WATT and 
MAIZE are two large fine creams of typical Mair type along the lines of Queen Mary but 
more easily grown, making better bulbs, and both are good increasers; these two will be 
fine additions especially for the exhibitor. E. O. BOASE, from Australia, is a new very light 
cream that is much the type of Gertrude Swenson. ALEXANDRIA is another cream from 
Mair that is very fine and it has been a great favorite of mine since the first time it bloomed. 
BLUE BEAUTY seems the best of the “blues”; however, ALLEGRO and MAX REGER 
of different shades are both great favorites. JOSEPH HAYDEN is a nice new novelty that 
shows a very velvety dark throat against a light background making it very unusual. BLUE 
DELIGHT we still like the best of the dark “blues”; although PELECRINA is a bit larger in 
blooms it has a rather weak stem. TUNIA’S BLUE and their BLUE WONDER make big spikes 
but the stem and color of Tunia’s Blue have not been as good as some of this class and Blue 
Wonder has been a rather slow increaser. While on their varieties I want to say a wordj 
for TUNIA’S TRIUMPH; it is a giant orange scarlet bloom that is well placed on the long 
spikes; certainly this is one for those wishing big ones and it has increased easily here. 
The scarlet class still needs one to replace old Dr. Bennett but several now look 
promising and maybe one or two of them will do the trick. Watch RED BANK for this job. 
AMADOR, ALLEMANIA, KASSEL, FRAU DR. HAN I EL, and FLAMING METEOR are low 
priced scarlets that are worth trying to see how they go in your location. BRIGHTLING is 
a very vigorous grower and is a fine scarlet color. GUTENBERG, from Barth in Germany, 
is a scarlet and a good one too; be sure to try it if you want a good glad of this color. 
HORST WESSEL is a bright carmine scarlet and LEO SCHLAGETER a pure red; these last two 
are also Barth’s and both extra good. The last few years I have favored Barth originations to 
those of Pfitzer although they are not known very widely here in the United States. 
A few other good introductions from Barth I’ll mention here. BAD HOMBURG is a 
medium pink with large flowers. BAD KREUZNACH pure salmon, seven or eight round open 
blooms on a long spike. ANNE RAHMSTORFF is a tall straight grower of about Koehl color 
and although the individual flowers are a bit smaller I believe it is a better variety; it does 
not have any of the faults so common to Koehl; we intend to increase the stock and use it 
in place of Koehl commercially. TOSCA, that very popular red, we again have sufficient 
stock of to list; it is a bit slow as an increaser and we withdrew it for a couple of years until 
we could get larger stocks. MCGUNTIA is a very early clear salmon pink. KOCHBRUNNEN- 
GEIST, which means Spirit of the Hot Springs, is a splendid salmon orange novelty although 
wonder if it can ever overcome its long name; it is early, has large flowers, and a strong 
tight grower. Due to a new German ruling the use of the names of political people for 
flowers is now prohibited so Barth has had to change two of his,—these are noted in the 
catalogue descriptions. 
Mair’s DAILY RECORD, about the color of Pimpernel, is a great glad; it has wonderful 
substance, ruffled, and I think will be the leader in that color class. BEN is similar but the 
center is cream rather than white. 
BLACK OPAL is the leader of the dark reds; it propagates easily, spikes are long with 
eight good sized blooms perfectly placed. ARABELLA is also a good very dark red. The new 
Holland strong growing MIKELLINA is good but not quite so dark as Arabella. RAMONA 
is a fine red novelty as it has a throat that is almost black and has always been a favorite of 
mine. Lemoine’s ABYSSINIE is a new very dark red; worthwhile for those especially inter¬ 
ested in this color. WALK-OVER is a big new red that looks very promising. REWI FALLU 
has tremendous dark red flowers and attracts much attention in the field but the flower 
heads are often a bit short, still I don’t suppose we should expect everything in one good 
glad. R Y. MAIR still does better for us than Wurtembergia. WHERO with its large flat 
