Having Most Open Fliorets 
Avalon, Black Opal, Chamouny, Damaris, Emile Bride, Flagship, Golden 
ees Helena, Heritage, Mauvette, Misty Dawn, Mermaid, Padre, Pelegrina, 
unl. 
Best for Exhibition 
It depends on the shows you enter them in. Some shows have two or three 
classes, Exhibition or Formal, Decorative or Informal, and three sizes of each. So 
every variety will go into one class or another. Here are a few that can usually be 
grown the nearest to show perfection. These are mostly of the Formal or Exhibition 
type. 
Aladdin, Algonquin, Amulet, Ariadne, Avalon, Bagdad, Beacon, Black Opal, 
Bit o’ Heaven, Blue Beauty, Blue Wonder, Chamouny, Chief Multnomah, Com- 
mander Koehl, Corona, Damaris, Dunkirk, Elizabeth the Queen, Emile Bride, Ethel 
Cave-Cole, Flagship, Golden Goddess, Helen of Troy, King Lear, King of Hearts, 
Magnolia, Mammoth White, Marimba, Margaret Beaton, Misty Dawn, Milford, 
Moneeta, Mother Machree, Mermaid, Myrna. Pandora, Picardy, Padre, Recado, 
Miss New Zealand, Red Charm, Regent, Rosa Van Lima, Sahara, Sensation, 
Shirley Temple, Star of Bethlehem, Vagabond Prince, Wings of Song and Zuni. 
Most Beautiful 
Often what one person considers beautiful another abhors. It depends on the 
person’s taste as to what he considers beautiful. Some like one color, some another. 
Some like pastels, some the dark heavy shades. However, there are standards of 
judging beauty which consider clear clean colors, combinations of shades and colors, 
form etc. I am naming a few which judging from the best standards are really 
beautiful. There are many others that to many people are fully as beautiful or more 
so. I am picking out only a few of the most outstanding. 
Aladdin, Algonquin, Amulet, Avalon, Ballad, Barcarole, Bolero, Candy 
Heart, Carillon, Conquest, Convoy, Corona, Diane, Dunkirk, Elizabeth the Queen, 
Glamis, Helen of Troy, Jasmine, King Lear, Magnolia, Margaret Beaton, Moneeta, 
Nadia, Orange Butterfly, Pandora, Paula Ann, Picardy, Red Charm, Rima, 
Rocket, Rosy Morn, Sensation, Shirley Temple, Snow White, Timbuctoo, Tecum- 
seh, Vassar and Winston. 
Most Striking and Unusual 
Aladdin, Beacon, Brownette, Bolero, Chamouny, Corona, Dunkirk, Elizabeth 
the Queen, Helen of Troy, Irak, King Lear, Malta, Margaret Beaton, Marimba, 
Moneeta, Ogarita, Padre, Penzance, Recado, Sahara, Sensation, Sir Galahad, 
Tecumseh, Trylon, Vagabond Prince. 
Most Likely to Succeed as Commercials 
There are a great many others that are just as good for local use. 
Algonquin, American Commander, Carillon, Chamouny, Colossus, Corona, 
Diane, Elizabeth the Queen, Lady Jane, Magnolia, Malta, Margaret Beaton, 
Marimba, Mermaid, Moneeta, Mother Kadel, Red Charm, Regent, Rocket, Rosy 
Morn, Sensation, Trylon, and Winston. 
Most Useful in Hybridizing 
Many people ask what varieties they should cross to secure outstanding seed- 
lings. If the gladiolus breeders only knew that their main troubles would be over. 
The fact is, you have to try different combinations of varieties for yourself. All I 
can do is give you the names of a few varieties which have produced good seedlings. 
There are many more which no doubt will give good seedlings if crossed with the 
right varieties. You can’t tell what you will secure until you try them. Remember 
that you get only a very, very small percentage of really outstanding seedlings from 
any cross. If you get one seedling good enough to introduce to the public out of a 
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