RECENT GLADIOLUS INTRODUCTIONS 
PARADISE 
This year, our collection of new gladiolus is unusually 
large; partially due to the fact that we made particularly 
strenuous efforts to ferret out all of the outstanding varieties 
(we list only the very best of all that we tried or saw), and 
partially to the fact that the breeding of recent years has 
been particularly productive. For convenience sake, we dis¬ 
cuss them in groups, according to their colors: 
WHITE AND CREAM — Snowprincess is an outstanding 
new variety, being a much taller edition of Maid of Orleans; 
Vredenburg a pure white on the order of Mammoth White, 
and unusually early; Shirley Temple is a beauty, huge and 
ruffled, easily the best of the creams. 
YELLOW — Golden Goddess still holds its place as the 
leader in this color. 
BLUE — Blue Beauty is a fine blue of good size, and Blue 
Peacock is a good novelty blue, fine color and very unusual. 
PURPLE — King Lear is a splendid, big purple, and Takina 
is a giant which borders on the American Beauty shade. 
ROSE RED — Leona, very tall, and fine of color, is good, 
and Timbuctoo, in darker coloring, is a real comer. 
RED — Tip-Top still leads among the lighter reds, with 
Arabella and Black Opal as the best very dark reds. The 
former is the darker of the two. 
SCARLET finds Regent as a fine new variety, with Beacon, 
very tall, and most unusual with its cream throat. 
ORANGE — La Fiesta is the brightest, true, non-fading 
orange, with Rising Sun, a flaming scarlet-orange, and Bit 
O’ Heaven and Carioca both being tall, and outstanding 
among the dark oranges. Mardi Gras is a fine big scarlet 
orange with light yellow throat, very distinctive. 
SALMON RED finds John S. Bach as the best all-around 
variety, but with the lusciously colored Valerie the best for 
color. 
BEACON 
SOFT ORANGE includes some fine new ones — the giant 
Aladdin, Barcarole, and Coral Glow all being truly outstanding. 
BUFF TO APRICOT finds two larger “Wasaga’s” in 
Amrita and Amulet, and Opal Queen is a big, opalescent 
variety that is nearly yellow in color. 
SALMON — Smiling Maestro is still good in the deeper 
tones, and Vista Bonita is a huge new one of W. H. Phipps 
color. 
LIGHT PINK — Miss America, a light flesh pink of perfect 
form and habit is, we believe, one of the finest new gladiolus 
in years; Carillon is deeper of color with a white throat, and 
Camellia and Candy Heart are the two finest blotched pinks 
in commerce, to the best of our knowledge. Rima is a very 
light orchidy lavender pink and is one of the best. 
DEEPER PINKS — Ellen Marie, a deeper Picardy, is good, 
and Festival Queen is very big and fine, but, of course, is now 
outclassed by the sensational, beautiful giant, Grand Opera. 
Pink Princess is a tall, medium sized gladiolus that is par¬ 
ticularly outstanding because of its heavy substance. Then, 
in the orchidy shades is Peggy Lou. The habit seems just like 
Picardy except that the substance is better, and, of. course, 
the color (which is fine) is different. 
BROWN — Maya Maid is indeed an unusual gladiolus, 
alone in its coloring. 
SMOKY — Zuni and Vagabond Prince are both leaders; 
the former is of the fine “ashes of roses” coloring, and 
Vagabond Prince is a deep, smoky, brownish red, very, very 
rich in coloring. 
The varieties discussed, above, total to forty-three, and 
the addition of our sensational 1939 introductions makes forty- 
eight, which is probably the longest list of new gladiolus we 
have ever carried — but, as previously mentioned, represents 
no deviation from our policy of listing nothing but the out¬ 
standing “better” varieties. 
To help those choosing varieties by colors, we have listed 
all of our gladiolus by colors. Needless to say, some fall “on 
the borderline” between two classes, but we have segregated 
them into reasonably distinctive groups. The 1939 introduc¬ 
tions are not included in this classification. 
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WHITE — Magna Blanca, Maid of Orleans, Mammoth White, 
Maunga, Snowprincess, Star of Bethlehem, Vredenburg; 
With markings — Etenard, Mme. Sully, Surf side. 
CREAM — Shirley Temple. 
YELLOW — Golden Dream, Golden Goddess, Harvest Moon, 
Primrose Princess. 
LAVENDER — Minuet. 
BLUE — Blue Admiral, Blue Beauty, Blue Peacock, Milford, 
Pelegrina. 
PURPLE — Charles Dickens, King Lear, Takina. 
ROSE RED — Leona, Timbuctoo. 
RED — Amador, Commander Koehl, Tip-Top, Tunia’s 
Triumph. 
DARK RED — Arabella, Black Opal, Moorish King, Rewii 
Fallu, Whero. 
SCARLET — Dr. F. E. Bennett, Regent; Light throat — 
Beacon. 
ORANGE — Bit O’Heaven, Carioca, La Fiesta, Rising Sun, 
Senorita; With markings — Mardi Gras. 
SALMON RED — John S. Bach, Valerie. 
SOFT ORANGE TO GRENADINE — Aladdin, Barcarole, 
Coral Glow, Grand Slam; With markings — Betty Nuthall. 
BUFF TO APRICOT — Amrita, Amulet, Opal Queen, Para¬ 
dise, Picardy, and Wasaga. 
SALMON — Frank J. McCoy, Mrs. John S. Wood, Salbach’s 
Pink, Smiling Maestro, Vista Bonita, W. H. Phipps. 
LIGHT PINK — Miss America; White throated — Carillon, 
Coryphee; Blotched — Camelia, Candy Heart. 
MEDIUM PINK — Early Peach, Ellen Marie, Festival Queen, 
Grand Opera, Mildred Louise, Pink Princess; Two- 
toned — Miss Alameda, Phyllis McQuiston, Queen Helen II, 
Siegfried. 
DEEP PINK— Cascade, Miss New Zealand; White throated 
— Pfitzer’s Masterpiece. 
ROSE PINK — Chamouny, Early Rose, Gertrude Swenson. 
ORCHID PINK — Peggy Lou, Salbach’s Orchid; Very 
light — Dorothy Simpson, Rima. 
BROWN — Maya Maid. 
SMOKY — Bagdad, Mother Machree, Zuni; Blotched — 
Emile Aubrun, Marmora, Vagabond Prince. 
