GUIDEBOOK FOR 1941 
Page 9 

Do you like long, stretchy flowerheads? 
Here they are, 30 inches or better; Peggy 
Lou, Picardy, June Bride, Exquisite, St. 
Edward, Treasury Gold, King of Hearts, 
Algonquin and King Click. 
The longest of these, Treasury Gold. 

Let us consider the bulk of bloom on a 
given flowerhead. Say 4 inches diameter and 
up. Plenty of 4inch glads. Can it be possible 
that of two spikes with equal number of 
open florets, one can have twice the bulk of 
bloom of the other? Yes, you can imagine 
that to be possible. But, four times the bulk 
of bloom? No, impossible you say. Perhaps 
you counter—A floret just twice the diameter 
of another couldn’t be four times as big. 
But you are wrong. Let us compare 2 
spikes, one with five open 4 inch florets, the 
other with five open 8 inch florets. Here 
are the cold facts: 
Diameter 4 inches, area 12.57 square inches. 
5 inches 19.64 
6 inches Peeps tl 
7 inches 38.50 
8 inches 50.27 
So figure it out for yourself. What’s more, 
a spike with only two open 8 inch florets has 
as great a bulk of bloom as one with eight 
open 4 inch florets! 
Therefore, let us particularly call your 
attention to our “‘Key” (see page 13) use of 
star * in our variety description to denote 
size of floret. These are the giants of Glad- 
dom: Merry Widow, King of Hearts, 
Crystal, Miss New Zealand, Takina, Tunia’s 
Triumph, Walk Over, California and Helen 
of Troy. Close on their heels and at times 
making even bigger flowerheads by holding 
more open, come Peggy Lou, New Zealand 
Splendor, Treasury Gold, Aladdin, Hinden- 
burg’s Memory, Picardy and others. 
Beauty of color harmony. All see this 
more or less differently. Particularly with 
odd colors as in Vagabond Prince and 
Gertrude Swenson. But we would be 
thoroughly surprised if a single person could 
fail to enthuse over the color of Treasury 
Gold, New Zealand Splendor, King of Hearts, 
Coutts’ Orchid, Margaret Beaton, Silentium, 

Dazzler, Pinocchio, Rosa van Lima, Midnight 
Red, Rodney and R. B. Nor is this a complete 
list of the beauties by any means. 

Cut flower growers are keen to buy varieties 
of which economically purchased number 
4 medium bulbs make saleable spikes while 
being grown into large bulbs. Among the 
very best performers we have in mind par- 
ticularly Peggy Lou, Rosa Van Lima, Harmau, 
Black Opal, Margaret Beaton, Stella Antis- 
dale, Aladdin, Raysheen, Walk Over, Vela, 
Jersey Cream, Vagabond Prince, Greta 
Garbo, Dr. Verhage and Silentium. These are 
our star performers from meduim bulbs, all 
doing relatively fine from small bulbs as well. 

It’s a rare glad if we can find no fault with 
it or at least some feature leaving room for 
some improvement. Even as with individuals 
a glad has reached the peak of success as 
soon as one begins to be satisfied with it. 

The interesting excerpts from customer 
letters scattered throughout this guidebook 
(in small italics) are mostly selected from 
individuals prominent in the industry or 
society officers. 

The stocks of Dr. Verhage, Herbstfreude, 
K & M’s Triumph, Mrs. Mark’s Memory and 
Silentium are very limited in America. The 
few who imported them before the war ended 
bulb imports from Europe are lucky indeed. 
The opportunity to replenish stocks via im- 
port to compensate for stocks now sold has 
passed into the dim future. To sell these items 
at less than prices asked would be foolish. 
Possibly K & M’s Triumph should not have 
been offered at all until more are propagated. 
This applies to Dazzler also for the reason 
that Mr. Both has just had an accidental loss 
of almost all of his stock of that item. 
Hindenburg’s Memory probably belongs’in 
that select list of 15. Easiest way in would be 
to call it 16. We list more scarlets than we 
would prefer. Suppose you tell us which one 
is not sufficiently outstanding for our select 
listing. We give up. 
ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY CONCERNING THE WORLD FAMOUS 
TUNIA EXHIBITION STRAIN 
We are pleased to advise our customers that we have entered into an exclusive arrangement 
with E. Both, world famous hybridizer of Adelaide, South Australia, whereby we are permitted 
to purchase stocks of his seedlings intended for introduction, a year before public release. 
We thus have stocks, grown here two years, fully acclimated and under U. S. release a year 
before normally possible. Importers, growers and catalogers will readily see the several ad- 
vantages of such opportunity of purchase. 
However, this arrangement is not intended to preclude Mr. Both from selling directly to 
U. S. customers, as heretofore. 
Mr. Both’s varities of recent years have proved sensational, particularly Tunia’s Triumph, 
Crystal, Harmau and St. Edward. 
