GUIDEBOOK FOR 1943 Page 13 

GROW SOME GLADIOLUS SEED 
All glad fans should try some gladiolus seed.. Most advanced amateurs already do attempt 
some hybridizing with their newest varieties or most favored colors. Gladiolus seed broadcast 
or planted thickly in close rows, covered about 34 inch, kept on moist side and with at least 
partial shade, commonly produces bulbs 4 to 34 inches diameter the first crop. Most of these 
bloom the second year and selections may be made on color values, the bulb selected and its 
bulblets thereafter grown under number pending full performance from a large bulb. 
All modern varieties were so produced, either from field collected or hand hybridized seed. 
Our seed offerings are genuinely hand hybridized. Literally hundreds watched us hybridizing 
our glads at the peak of our blooming season. Most of the pollen used was taken from protected 
florets opened indoors. Both Dr. Masek, past president of the Ohio Society and Lee Patton, 
its present executive chairman, helped. We made more crosses, with more duplicates but 
early light frosts damaged so many immature pods that our offerings are very sharply reduced. 
No two seeds, even from the same cross and pod, produced flowers just alike, though they are 
likely to favor parent characteristics. 
With about the most exclusive collection of ‘“‘world beaters’’ to be found in the U. S., we 
have excellent opportunity to produce intriguing crosses, which in turn should rather con- 
sistently produce some seedlings above the average run of good standard varieties in each color 
class. They do for us. Witness that in 1941, in addition to quite a few blue ribbons, our seed- 
lings won champion seedling award at W. Va., Ohio and Mich., two American Home 
Achievement Medals (W. Va. and Mich.) and two grand champion blooms of the show (Ohio 
state and Mich. state). The seed has equal chance to produce some good ones for you as what 
we plant is the unsold seed. 
The only trouble is that we are as likely as not to part with some outstanding sorts worthy 
of introduction as a named variety. That may be your luck. If you grow such from our seed 
we should like first opportunity to introduce them for you. 
it might be advisable to let you know that it is the custom in the gladiolus industry that 
the person who grows and segregates the seedling bulb is given the credit of being the “‘origi- 
nator’ of the variety if it is named and introduced—not necessarily the person who made the 
actual cross. If a lot of new ‘‘originators’’ do not appear in four to five years as the net 
result of our offering these select crosses we will be greatly surprised. 
Permitting seed to set decimates bulblet production. Likely we sacrifice bulblets on rare 
new sorts to an extent that seed sales at these prices cannot remotely compensate us for this 
loss. Perhaps contribution to variety improvement will be our only compensation. 
Try your luck and skill in selection of parents. Depending on stocks available we will try 
to be very liberal. 
How to order. Order in units of 5 (minimum), 10, 15 or 20 (maximum) seeds of a given 
cross. The seed bearing parent is the first variety mentioned. Canadian and other foreign 
customers do not have to secure a permit to import seeds. Crosses are identified by number 
for your and our convenience. Order by number (as ‘‘5 seeds No. 451__$.15’’). Seed prices 
are Net (no discount), 
GROUP A. SEEDS 3c EACH, NET 471 Oberbayern x Crystal 
451 73395 (** yellow) x Big Top 472 Pastel x 73395 (** yellow) 
452 Acca Laurentia x Bobby Dazzler 473 Spitfire x June Bride _ 
453 Acca Laurentia x Golden Galleon 474 Tunia’s Mahomet x Spitfire 
454 Bobby Dazzler x Elanora 
455 Dazzler x Cream Seedling (Lade) GROUP C. SEEDS 5c EACH, NET 
456 Globe Trotter x Harmau 475 73395 (** yellow) x Hurricane 
457 Harmau x Snow Cruiser 476 Acca Laurentia x Frohsinn 
458 K & M Triumph x Spitfire 477 Acca L. x Pfitzer’s Masterpiece 
459 King William x Lord Selkirk 478 Bobby Dazzler x Snow Cruiser 
460 Marguerite x King William 479 Dazzler x Snow Cruiser 
461 Mrs. Mark’s Memory x Spitfire 480 Harmau x Leading Lady 
462 Red Charm x Snow Ball 481 King William x Stella Antisdale 
463 Silentium x King William 482 King William x Tunia’s Marvel 
464 Stella Antisdale x Golden Galleon 483 Lade’s Cream seedling x Harmau 
484 Margaret Beaton x Harmau 
GROUP B. SEEDS 4c EACH, NET 485 Oberbayern x Snow Cruiser 
465 Armada x Herbstfreude 486 Red Charm x Snow Cruiser 
466 Bobby Dazzler x Tuts Both (It. orange) 487 Silentium x Stella Antisdale 
467 California Rose x Coutts’ Orchid 488 Snow Ball x Pinocchio 
468 Elanora x Snow Cruiser 489 Snow Cruiser x Bobby Dazzler 
469 Helen of Troy x June Bride 490 Snow Cruiser x June Bride 
470 Maurrie Trevan (bl. red) x Thriller 491 Tunia’s Mahomet x Hurricane 
