PEARSON GLADIOLUS GARDENS 
William Lee Pearson, Prop. 
Keysville, Virginia 
Again we are pleased to greet our friends and to thank them 
for their splendid orders last year. We take this opportunity al- 
so to thank those who wrote us such nice letters about our own 
varieties, LADY ASTOR, SHENANDOAH, MILDRED CHAND- 
LER and ROANOKE, all of which we are proud to say have won 
many blue ribbons at shows throughout the country. 
Before proceeding further, we want to say that we did not 
move as we thought we would last time we visited you, but are 
still at the old stand and no doubt will ay put for the duration of 
the war, at least. “ 
Someone has aptly said that “Morale contributes to victory 
-—F lowers contribute to morale.” We believe this is true and that 
many lovers of flowers will find in their gardens this summer just 
the kind of diversion and relaxation they will need. 
We want to comment briefly on a few of the outstanding 
glads that came under our observation last summer. At the 
Southwest Virginia Gladiolus Society Show, Roanoke, Virginia, 
we saw SNOWSHEEN, Mr. E. B. Snyder’s pure white blue rib- 
boner. This beautifully ruffled glad with many open florets was 
as nice and as white as it has been our privilege to see and we pre- 
dict for it a good future. In our own gardens there was WINGS 
of SONG, a salmon pink with cream throat. slichtly ruffled, with 
many large florets open at one time. A particular favorite of ours 
despite its one fault of showing a blueness at the edges as it be- 
gins to fade. And here let the writer digress to say he has never 
seen a glad wholly without fault. When he does his own interest 
will flag somewhat. 
ARETHUSA. a tall ruffled orange-vellow or apricot, stands 
up like a soldier. BEACON, a clear bright rose scarlet with cream 
bloteh. If you want an eye-full of color, make up a basket of 
BEACON and EVELYN STINSON. Among our best oranges 
are DIANE, LADY ASTOR and SMOKY - TIPS. The latter 
is one of our small decoratives, a sort of light burnt orange 
SHENANDOAH and JALNA are our best smokies. CREVE 
COUER is a burnt orange with a throat similar to Shenandoah. 
Very popular with us. A light blue (so called) surpassing 
any we have seen in that class, is BLUE RIDGE, while the old 
variety AVE MARIA is still our favorite of the medium blues. As 
for the lavenders. some have claimed MINUET has been surpass- 
ed. We have tried some of them and still have to be shown. 
Among the most outstanding reds of our acquaintance are MAS- 
TER MYRON and AMERICAN COMMANDER. The old COM- 
MANDER KOEHL is still no slouch and for hardiness in a hot, 
dry season, AMADOR is like a Marine at Wake Island. That 
goes for our own Lady Astor as well. 
Please Read The Following Conditions and Terms of Sale Before 
Ordering 
We will pay transportation charges on all domestic retail 
orders if not less than $1.00. If less, please include enough for 
