4 KAYLOR NURSERIES, LAKEWOOD, WASH. 

Tuanolia — A New Glad 
Many years ago there appeared in one of 
our plantings of hybrid seedling Glads the 
progenitor of what has since been developed 
into a new family of this most popular of 
all summer flowers. This first ancestor was 
a beautiful orange with the four lower 
florets of a Magnolia or Tulip shape—all 
petals upright and entirely without throat 
markings. The new flower had Gloriana 
as a seed parent. 
First thought was to destroy the thing, 
and then we had a hunch that here was the 
beginning of a development of a Glad of 
the same style and color as that of one of 
our favorite Tulips—Prince of Orange. The 
florets were pollenized and pollen from 
them was used in making other crosses. Of 
the hundreds of seedlings that resulted, two 
carried the upright florets. These were used 
as seed parents, and another generation 
was on its way. 
Among the bulbs of this generation were 
many throwbacks to normal types. Quite a 
number with from two to six Magnolia type 
florets, and then one morning — Eureka! 
Here was a tall, strong-stemmed spike with 
every floret of the desired type. Good, 
heavy texture, six open in the field, all of 
them spiraled around the stem so that all 
could open without crowding and a white 
that fails in between the snow white of 
Albatros and the creamy tint of Maid of 
Orleans, but with the metallic sparkle of 
the former. 
Performance the following year (1938) 
was a duplication of its first blooming. The 
generous supply of bulblets germinated 
easily and grew into bulbs that produced 
good spikes in 1989. The records for 1940 
show performance maintained with plants 
60 inches tall, 25 inch flower heads, 22 buds, 
six open, florets six by five and one-half 
inches. Please remember our records are 
all based on field performance. We do not 
use specially prepared plots of ground and 
we eves irrigate, dry farm methods are 
used. 
Naturally we have made many more 
crosses and now have the Magnolia type in 
several colors but in such small stocks that 
it will be a year or more before we can 
offer these colored ones for sale. One of 
the most admired flowers in our display at 
the Everett, Washington, show of the Paci- 
fic Northwest Gladiolus Society in 1941 was 
a Magnolia type flower in a beautiful shade 
of lavender. Several shades of pink have 
also been developed. 
Florists last season used every spike we 
had to spare. The florets were broken off 
for use in corsage work or the entire spike 
was sometimes used in bouquet and design 
work. Price per large bulb for 1942 is $25.00. 
This is for the white variety. 
NORMANDIE 
Perseverance, plus an understanding of 
the job at hand, will turn a dream into an 
actuality. Mother Nature was kind to Dr. 
C. M. Miller, Everett—she gave him both. 
Tahlahneka, the biggest and best yellow, 
and Mt. Index, that tall and stately white, 
resulted from crosses made by him and now 
we offer a shell pink from his seedling 
garden. 
Do not confuse Miller’s Normandie with 
others of the same name that have been 
introduced during the past fifteen years. 
The new one is a shell pink, just a bit 
deeper and warmer than apple blossom, 
with a pale lemon throat. It is slightly 
ruffled, will open eight properly spaced and 
faced five and one-half inch florets on a 
tall straight stem. Has never crooked. 
Spikes shipped by air express to the 
1941 show of the Southeastern Michigan 
Gladiolus Society held in Detroit won an 
award of merit. Prices for large bulbs are 
$3.00 each. No other size for sale this year. 
K-THREE-SIX-FOUR 
This is one of our own originations. We 
have grown it for a number of years for 
the cut flower trade. Because the world is 
full of too many good pink Glads we had 
not intended to introduce this one, but so 
many visitors asked to buy stock that we 
are now giving them a chance. It is of 
good size, a good deep pink on good stems 
and a fine grower, doing well even from 
small bulbs. But its outstanding good point 
is that it is the EARLIEST deep pink we 
grow, coming along with Royal Pledge, 
Yakima Apricot and that very early light 
pink, Maid of Honor. Large bulbs 25c each 
or five for $1.00. 
TAHLAHNEKA 
and 
MT. INDEX 
Introduced by us last spring these two 
new Glads have made good our claim that 
they have superior quality and rank with 
the best. In our own fields they were 
grown beside the leading sorts of other 
originators, in their respective color classes, 
and in both cases came thru in top position. 
Customers who bought stock last spring 
report satisfactory performance. 
Tahlahneka is the best yellow we grow 
—and we have tried out just about all of 
them for comparison. It is taller, florets 
are more widely opened, more of them open 
at one time ,excellent placement (something 
rare in yellow Glads), good producer of 
easily germinated bulblets, and of that clear 
medium gold color that makes it popular 
with florists. Every cut flower we had last 
