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MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED STORE 
GENERAL LIST OF GLADIOLUS 
SET OUT ONLY THE FINEST VARIETIES 
When you put in Gladioli, be sure you have the best kinds it is possible to obtain. 
Don’t buy ordinary common kinds just because they are a few cents cheaper. Set out 
the very best and you will have the finest collection of blooms in your neighborhood. 
Doz. Per 100 
Marmora. A huge greyish lavender with a petunia blotch. Makes a 
spectacular spike which is always a winner in its own color class. 
Probably the largest of the smokies.$0.35 $2.50 
Early Sunrise. Large flowers of pinkish salmon with yellow throats. 
Big blossoms, well placed on sturdy spikes. Early and fine. Recom¬ 
mended .35 2.50 
Sonatine. Atlas-rose with small cherry blotches. Florets very large, hav¬ 
ing broad petals. Grows 5 to 6 feet high. One of the very best com¬ 
mercials .35 2.50 
Aida: A striking dark blue with large fiowers. Very tall straight spikes. 
Blooms early, produces large bulblets which bloom freely.35 2.50 
Toberson. A medium-large deep rich yellow. Tall straight spikes carry 
six or more open florets.50 3.25 
Minuet. The last word in light lavender Gladiolus. It is the lavender by 
which other lavenders are judged. Immense exhibition flower.50 3.25 
Betty Nuthall. A magnificent variety that has been taking the shows by 
storm. It is an immense light coral pink with a pale orange throat. 
Very tall spikes and fiowers 6 inches across.35 2.50 
Giant Nymph. La France pink with creamy yellow throat. A magnificent 
new variety of great size, perfect arrangement and long spike.35 2,50 
Picardy is the most spectacular pink of the last few years and has liter¬ 
ally taken the “glad” world by storm. The very large fiowers of won¬ 
derful form, the warmth of the coloring, the tall spikes on which 
the flbwers are ideally spaced, all combine to make Picardy the 
glad of indescribable charm.35 2.50 
Maid of Orleans. We consider this our best commercial white. Well 
formed fiowers of milk white loveliness and creamy throat. Tall 
spikes, good substance and placement.50 3.25 
Fata Morgana (Pf). Peach blossom, shading to amber yellow in throat. 
Seven to eight large blooms, well placed on graceful spike.35 2.50 
Dr. F. E. Bennett. One of the best brilliant peach reds, large massive, 
perfect fiowers, borne on strong stems.35 2.50 
Pelegrina. The best dark blue in commerce. Seven or eight large fiowers 
open and nearly all buds showing color. Like a piece of rich velvet.. .35 2.50 
Giant Flowered Mixed. A mixture of the best Giant Flowered sorts in 
a wide range of shades and colors, and includes many named varie¬ 
ties of special merit.20 1.25 
