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Burma is big ruffled deep rose = 7 to & open = 8o deep it 
could almost be classed as a purplee One of the best. Silvery 
Teton is another fine glad - a deep rose with lighter edge to 
florets and lighter center, very beautiful combination. Chaumony 
has developedinto a grand performer with long stretchy many open= 
ed flower head - rose with lighter rose edge. Indian Princess is 
rich colored lovely deep rose ~ a good deal like Burma but with 
smaller floretse Barbara is a rose with light center and very 
pretty. Crinkles requires special growing for top bloom - but then 
it is lovely. Growing again Coutts Orchid, Rose Splendor and 
Mozart. Coutts Orchid tends floppy so is being tested furthere 
066 LAVENDER 
O None 
400 Badger Beauty = 83 Elizabeth the Queen 82 Ellwood - = 81 
Hoosier Lady - 82 Minuet --=-= 82 Reflection- = 80 
Komiri - =-- = 80 Eloise ---= 80 
300 Frances Irwin = 81 Lavender === 80 Lavender Ruffles 80 
No new ones and Badger Beauty leading the pack closely follow 
ed by Hoosier Lady and Elizabeth the Queene These are all lovely 
flowers. Badger B. having fine spike and lovely lavender and 
white florets =- Hoosier Lady is light lavender with light cream 
center - Eloise a deeper cream center - Komiri adds some blue to 
lavender and cream end is lovely and different, Others all fine 
and all good cut flowers that florists likee 
070 PURPLE 
500 Mrs. Mark's Memory - 82 
400 Purple Supreme-83 Kulshan - = = = 82 
Elanora - - - - 82 Purple Beauty - 79 
300 Bernies Paster = 79 Atlas ---=- = 79 
Max Reger - = ~ 78 Rudolph Serkin 78 
Grow again Herbstfreude = Koran 
Mrs. Mark's Memory was not so good this year but is only one 
in 500 class. King of all purples is Purple Supreme = very tall 
fine grower=- magnificent self color = opens 8-10, 5 inch florets 
a grend flower everybody should grows Elanora can be big and fine 
and also can open 10. Kulshan by Floyd Kaylor is marvelous color 
and this year was hard to beat. Bernice Paster is light purple 
with white center-very pretty. Atlas might be deep blue and is 
good = though we call it a purplee Rangoon is a ruffled King Lear 
but does not appear to open more than 3 or 4 but is good neverthe- 
lesse 
Kind Lear = = = 80 
Parnassus = = ~ 79 
Rangoon = = - = 79 
076 LIGHT BLUE 
500 None 
400 Jeannie James = 81 Blue Beauty - = 80 
Raysheen = - = 79 
300 Milford = === 79 Winall = - = = -79 
Grow again - Cyclamen, Carol Jean, Pfitzer's Successe 
Only two are any good - Blue Beauty and Jeannie Yames - both 
fine = good spikes and very dependable performers. The others dont 
open enough or the color is not too cleane 
Blue Wonder= = 80 
Allegro - = = = 78 
078 DEEP BLUE 
one 
400 Blue Admiral -= 79 
500 Oberbayern = == 79 Leonardo da Vinci 78 Readington = -=<77 
Blue Admirel you all know - only one in 400 class that is any 
goode Robert Burns and Vienna Woods by same originator and too 
close to Blue Admiral to be called separate varieties. Oberbayern 
is deep blue with white center and very lovely spike. Scaroce.. 
080 SMOKEYS 
BOO Tunia’s Mahomet 84 R.Be--- == 82 Flying Fortress 80 
High Finance = 83 Tecumseh==-= 82 Jack Pot=-=-= 80 
Siwash=---= 80 
400 Grey Damm = = - 81 Bagdad = === 80 Buckeye Bronze 79 
Daniel Boone = 80 Show Boat == 80 Marmora--= 79 
300 Mother Machree- 80 Skyline =--=-==79 Old South=-= 79 
Intrepid ---= 79 
We now have a fine collection of smokeys. Tunia's Mahomet seems 
tops - a grand deep colored effect=bluish and strawberry combina= 
tion - lovely. Is grand big many opened tan and white smokeye ReBe 
is brownish smokey but unbelievable beautiful colorgand sells on 
sight. Teoumseh looked fine - whitish center, tan on edges= opene 
ed 3-4 - if can open more will rate higher. Flying Fortress is 
bluish smokey. High Finance is marvelous spike of smokey salmon 
with white center and opens 10, 5" floretse Jack Pot is deep red 
bronze with lighter center, Siwash has stylish pointed florets = 
brown petals with white center - a good novelty. Grey Dewn has 
grady stripes on lighter gray and a good one is hard to beat. 
Daniel Boone is a good smokey - different from all otherse Show 
Boat is smokey light salmon. Skyline is informal bluish color = 
florets one over one, Others you all know, Any of these capsble of 
fine spikes. Bolero is hard to grow and so is Xerxes. 
090 ANY OTHER COL(R 
500 Winstrel ---— 82 
400 None 
500 Empress 
Grow again Zanzibar 
Minstrel is grand spike - beautiful color = wonderfully shaped 
floretse Robinson Crusoe is 1t. warm brown, with deeper edging 
and some attractive streaking at edges of petals, Very prettye 
Promising - very. Empress is lavender with yellow center = a very 
striking contrast - color combination not too pleasing but opens 
10 and has its pointse Ophir is a small ruffled Vee Cream, 
Robinson Crusoe 81 
--- 78 Ophir ----- 79 
aera " TO HYBRIDIZERS 
riginators can send us their seedlings and 
them in both gardens - two states - canine loam sha velay oe 
and if they look good will rate them and give you a written 
report. We will also enter them in shows when they look good 
and are ready at show time. If our reports encourage you to 
introduce and the rating is high enough so that the seedlin 
looks like a real contribution to its color class, we will,” 
if you desire, catalog and list your new variety on a mutuale 
ly agreeable contract basis. Many distinguished gladiolus 
originators send us their best new ones each year on this 
basis. However we do not want any except truly promising seed= 
lings = only your best ones = and when we grow them will try 
to help you get a show record as well as a rating in our gare 
dens. We desire a mimimum of 12 large bulbs of each variety 
submitted for trial and 24 is better as we plant in two 
gardense 
TT eee 
We also have these varieties that space prevented listing- 
at prices same as those of other catulogers, ALGUNQUIN ALADDIN 
ETHEL CAVE COLE REGENT BLUE BEAUTY DIANE PINNOCHIO 
SEPTEMBER WHITE VREDENBERG SCHOONARD VAN GOLD LADY BOO 
MERRY WIDOW MISS BLOOMINGTON DR BENNETT ELOISE GOLDEN CHIMES 
HARVEST MOON INTRUDER JEANNIE 


L.i.May's variety comment is missing 
this year as Monk has been under s very 
punishing schedule of war work in the 
last two months and finally when he 
wrote it at last minute it miscarried 
in the mails. Awful sorry. We do not 
agree entirely on many views of grow- 
ing, varieties or ratings and express 
ourviews to each other with great 
franxness and yet are in basic agree 
ment 93° percent of the time- which is , 
a high figure. He does read and edit 
every word in our price list- tho not 
many changes are made- and he shares 
with me the deep desire to have every 
thing we say genuinely helpful and 
always truthfull- concerning every 
variety we discuss or mention. We 
want this annual report and pricelist 
to be the most reliable in the glad 
world and work very hard to have it 
grow in that direction. We also desire 
to have our prices competitive and 
no higher than other good catalogers 
but there is 2 great deal of confusion 
this year aud we have simply done the 
best we cuuld. When times become more 
normal we will be in line with the 
mérket out Eght now it is impossible 
to find out what the market really is. 

HIGH FINANCE 
Best of the smokeys 
J.aH, 
