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CRYSLAT 
Pure White - - 7 inch florets 
WHITE—00 Series 
Exh. and Commercial giant of giants. Pure 
white without any marking. Florets 
614-71% inches. 11-16 open (has held 
several more). Florets open wide and flat, 
have heavy substance and open up 
the stem very quickly. Stem is exception- 
ally wiry and strong. Foliage is abundant 
and very wide. Makes exceptionally fine 
looking bulbs and a fairly good quantity 
THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
IGLOO (Butt) 85**—ft Smooth petalled, 
purest white, faint cream marking in 
throat. Appears to avoid color flecking 
in bad weather. Straight, tall, hard. 
spikes with about 2 ft. flowerheads, 6 or 
more open, 5 inch florets in good place- 
ment. Easily the best performer of many 
whites we have tested recently. 
Each L $2.50 M $1.50 S $1.00. 
LORD SELKIRK (Twomey) 94 *—fttt 
Commercial. Clear milk white with un- 
marked creamy white throat. Makes a 
tall, strong plant, blooming well from 
medium size bulbs. 4-414 inch florets, 
11 or more open, about 25 buds. Propa- 
gation fair only with us. Was grand 
champion Minn., ’38 and ’39 also Winni- 
peg, 40. Each L $ 50 M .35 Bits. .05. 
MARGARET BEATON (Twomey) 94 **+ 
ttt A beauty. Ivory white with small 
orange scarlet blotch. Tall, well formed 
spike. So beautiful that it has jumped into 
popularity and a slight tendency to weak- 
ness of stem under extreme _ temper- 
atures deters no one from wanting it, 
once seen. We recorded 27 firsts won 
about the country in ’41. See Tabulation 
of Winners for 1944. L $ .10 M .07 Bits 
(100, .40). 
MYRNA (Pruitt) 76 **—ftt Commercial. 
Ivory white. Ruffled. About halt way 
between Maid of Orleans and Mary 
Elizabeth, its parents, but larger florets 
and 7-10 open. We had one spike open 
11 in the field. Positively wonderful cut 
flower habits. British A. M., ’39. Getting 
its share of grand championships. 
L .12 M .07 Bits (100, .60). 
SILENTIUM (Pfitzer) 80 *+1ft{t Dec. 
Com. A striking and elegant white glad, 
blending to a cream center containing a 
small carmine marking. Slender stems. 
excellent placement with regularity, grand 
cut flower habits, fine blooms from the 
smaller sized bulbs and a good propa- 
gator. Surely headed for world wide fame 
as a cut flower. We broke the ice for it in 
U. S. with 2 firsts at S. E. Mich., ’40. 
L .15 M .10 Bits (100, .50.) 
“‘Silentium is far superior to Margaret Beaton. M. B. is 
of large bulblets that germinate easily and Apo Ree EOE Ree Mowe, Vile 
grow well. Not a good bloomer from the 
smaller sizes but makes up for that plenty 
from large bulbs, be they young, old or SNOW CRUISER (Evans) 78 *** — ttt 
even old divisions. Was both seedling 
champion and grand champion S. Austr. 
Glad Soc. ’37, scoring 90 a new high up 
to that time. We won with it in color 
classes Midwest, Mich. and S. E. Mich. 
and it was grand champion, Wyo., all ’41. 
Received British Award of Merit in '39. 
Supply limited. 
Each L (large) $.30 M (medium) $.20 
S (small) $.10 Blts (bulblets) (100, $2.00). 
Exh. Com. An immense, super giant, with 
round smooth florets an inch or more larg- 
er than those of Crystal. Pure white 
without any marking, with a slight blend- 
ing towards pale cream deep in the throat. 
A spike entered in the seedling section, 
Ohio, ’41, notwithstanding only 4% florets 
had opened at time of judging, neverthe- 
less was such a giant in bulk of open bloom, 
such immaculate, pure color, that it won 
