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DAWN seems the best in that color. RED ENSIGN is similar in color to Errey’s old Victor 
but much improved all over. MISS NEW ZEALAND and TAKINA, now well down in price, 
should be grown by everyone interested in the big ones. TASMAN we still prefer to anything 
of anywhere near its color. WAIKAWA a rich eosine pink, CENTURY LAVENDER as the 
name implies, and MANU a rose scarlet, are three good new ones from Burns. 
PFITZER’S MASTERPIECE this year came nice and straight so I guess when we have had 
some crooked ones in the past the season was a factor. SOUTHPORT is another good pure 
pink, always long straight spikes with over twenty buds and seven or eight medium sized 
flowers open. PEGGY LOU should be with these for bred the same as Picardy it is rather 
similar to it in type except the color is much pinker. HINDENBURC’S MEMORY was large 
(about 6 inches), nice scarlet red color and good spikes. MARGOT BRUNINCS a rosy pink 
and ANNA REGINA light pink and cream are two new ones that seem worthwhile from our 
short experience with them. HEILIGTUM makes great spikes but its tendency to make 
poor bulbs is so bad that it will probably never go commercially, still, a great glad for the 
hobby enthusiast. SCHERZO is a nice new blotched white. 
Those of you who want exhibition varieties that will open about ten blooms at once, 
well placed on the spikes, should consider; MRS. C. P. WORLEY, a salmon red; the new 
MRS. ROBERT NASH, a pink; Julyan’s RONA, a blotched cream and pink; RONCA, a Red 
Lory type that is cerise in color; GLEN, a smoky salmon; and the older super exhibition varieties 
—GERTRUDE SWENSON and FRANK |. McCOY. 
The commercial varieties: CAMELOT, ORLANDO, COIMBA, LAIDLEY, IRENE, LA 
FIESTA, BIT O’HEAVEN, and CAESAR were extra nice this year. 
Many of you want novelties and I suggest you consider: COPPERFIELD, ZUNI, STORM 
TRIUMPHANT, TAMAKI and DANNY BOY. 
These notes have covered a lot of varieties and have not been in much of any order,— 
just taken from my field note book where I jot down each day anything that seems worthy 
of note—and I hope you have found something of interest in them. 
At The Shows 
During the past season we sent spikes to a good many shows, using air express at all 
shows except those nearby. In the cases where the show was being held in a city that was 
a stop for the air liners the spikes arrived in good condition but at some of the shows where 
the blooms had to be reshipped by regular express from the air terminal the results were not 
so good. Therefore, it seems unwise for us to ship to shows at a distance that are not 
direct air liner stops. 
We had blooms at: Memphis, Tennessee; Ames, Iowa; Sioux City, Iowa; New York City, 
New York; Algona, Iowa; Havre de Grace, Maryland; Wellsville, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; 
Hagerstown, Maryland; Marion, Mass.; Brockton, Mass.; and Boston, Mass. At many of 
these shows we received complimentary awards, although they were usually noncompetitive 
displays, and as these spikes were about all seedlings we were much pleased. 
Our display at Boston (see back cover) was awarded a N. E. C. S. Cold Medal. 
At the New England Gladiolus Society Seedling Meetings, held each week during the 
season, we received nine Awards of Merit, twenty-seven Commendation awards, and the cup 
for the highest scoring seedling (95 points) shown during the year. 
Successful Gladiolus Culture 
The present day varieties of gladiolus can be very EASILY CROWN to perfection in 
every section of United States or Canada as well as in most all the foreign countries. We 
