Please Note - White Gold has inherited from its Picardy parent the trait of producing 
rather short flowerheads from small or young bulbs, but large bulbs produce normally 
proportioned flower-heads with 19 to 21 buds. 
Because of the extraordinary vigor of White Gold, the entire plant and spike become 
very heavy, which means that, with shallow planting, they are very apt to lean over after 
heavy rains, especially in clay soil. PLANT WHITE GOLD bulbs DEEP. 
Prices for 1944 - per each 
No. 1-$.70, No. 2-$.60, No. 3-$.50, No. 4-$.40, No. 5-$.30, No. 6-$.20 
Ten bulbs of any size at eight times the single price 
Bulblets - Two - $.15, Ten - $.60, Twenty - $1.00 
The following was recently received from one of America’s oldest and best known hybridists: 
“White Gold has been in fine bloom for us for about ten days. It is both showy and beautiful. 
Please accept my congratulations for having originated this outstanding new glad.” 
A large grower in Puerto Rico, who bought some White Gold last spring, wrote that it 
was the strongest growing gladiolus that he had ever seen and, in a later letter he said 
that he was looking forward to planting 5,000 White Gold each month. 
Sometime back I left a few spikes of White Gold with some of the large wholesale 
florists in Milwaukee. A few days later I received a letter from a member of Milwaukee’s 
largest wholesale florists, which read something like this: The spikes of White Gold which 
you left at our store a few days ago surely created a sensation in our office. Your des- 
cription of White Gold is entirely too modest. It it sure to become one of the greatest 
commercials in the country. Upon this florist’s advice one of his growers later bought 
5,000 White Gold. 
1944 INTRODUCTION 
BANE So OUN, Bey Ditton 7% lheegel 
A new large flowered formal type, distinct in color from any glad on the market. 
Florets - Large, ruffled, 7-9 open, with 5-6 showing color on a 21 bud spike; florets well 
attached and faultlessly placed, on a strong, straight spike; size 5% - 6%”. 
Color - A rich, deep, clear salmon, blending into a light cream throat without markings. 
