Just a Little Chat With Prospective Customers. 
Beginning with my first introductions, it has been my constant aim to offer to the 
public only such varieties as would reflect credit upon the name of their originator. 
The mere production of new varieties of gladiolus is a very simple matter, in fact, 
practically every seedling represents a new variety. Where the rub comes in is in the sel- 
ection of varieties that are actually “supers”. 
A breeder may use only the very best of scientific methods, yet only a very small 
fraction of his seedlings will be found to possess the outstanding qualities without which 
no new variety can hope to gain even passing recognition in this era of super glads. 
His most difficult problem is the elimination of many good seedlings that are still not 
of a caliber sufficient to make them serious contenders for top rating in a field where 
the competition for honors is becoming more intense each year. There is only one way 
to meet this problem: the breeder must train himself to become hard - so hard that 
only seedlings of unquestionable and outstanding merit will eventually survive the most 
severe elimination trials. I admit that I found it no easy task to eliminate many an appealing 
seedling, but I think that I have learned my lesson; how well may be judged from the 
fact that, although I have to date grown probably close to a quarter million of seedlings, 
I have so far introduced fewer than a dozen! 
In offering you Scheer Glads, I do not expect you to pay good money for the 
privilege of testing them out: all of the testing has been done before I ever offer a 
single new variety. As for the method used in testing them, I will say that I do not depend 
solely upon my own appraisement of any seedling, but submit it to several experienced 
growers whose qualifications to judge glads are unquestionable and whose integrity cannot 
be doubted. Nor is that all: Each and every one of my originations has had its test on 
the show bench and has proven, by winning blue ribbons at major shows, that it is able 
to win against the very best in its color class. 
Because of the severe tests to which every Scheer variety is subjected prior to_ its 
introduction, Scheer originations rate very high in the opinion of those who know them 
best - in fact, with experienced fans the name is a guaranty of quality, and that is pre- 
cisely what I have been striving for. The eminent status which Scheer Glads have attained 
will be jealously guarded: not only will there never be a let-down in the high standard 
set for them but every effort will be made to raise it even higher. 
The descriptions in this announcement are as accurate as it is possible to make them. 
Being neither poet nor fiction writer, but having received my entire training along. strictly 
scientific lines, I learned, long ago, to describe things exactly as they are - I try to make 
my descriptions exact word pictures. Where a variety has any shortcoming at all you will 
find that described as clearly as are its good points - in other words, I try to make my des- 
cription honest and complete. 
No new introductions are offered for 1945. I have one that I had planned to introduce 
this season but a few rogues turned up among my bulblet stock and I decided to hold it until 
I have made sure that my stock is pure. 
I expect to have a new yellow for introduction in 1946, which promises to be a really 
worthwhile addition to that relatively weak color class. I have seen nothing to date that 
can match it for clean, clear color. 
