WHITE GOLD — The best known of my varieties to date. 
The reputation of this grand cream grows with each passing season. During the past 
season it won firsts at a majority of major shows, but its most signal triumph was achieved 
at the 1944 Boston Show of the New England Gladiolus Society - incidentally, the top 
ranking show in America -, where a basket of White Gold, entered by Wendell W. Wyman, 
won first place in the 25 spike class, the most vigorously contested class in the show. By 
placing first in this class this entry won the coveted 25th Anniversary Award Medal of the 
NEGS, as well as the Anniversary Scroll of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the 
highest honors in the show. The 25 spike class is an open class, which means that any glad of 
any type or color is eligible for entry - in other words, it is the class where the very best 
glads in the field compete for top honors. Naturally, winning in this class at the Boston 
Show is considered quite an achievement and Mr. Wyman wrote me that, so far as he knows, 
no variety has previously won this honor for two successive years, yet this was the third 
year in succession that White Gold won in the 25 spike class, establishing a record un- 
dreamed of. 
The fame of White Gold as a commercial is growing rapidly, and small wonder, for 
no other glad excels it for arrangement work of any kind. That florists fully appreciate its 
ideal qualities is amply borne out by reports from all sections. One grower writes that his 
White Gold brought him prices as much as 75% higher than the market price of other 
creams and whites. A western grower, who is also one of our best known breeders, recently 
wrote: “We had quite a few blooms of White Gold this year but hardly got to see any 
open out, the local florists were so anxious to have them. It certainly looks like it should be 
one of the very best commercials.” 
The following is an extract from a letter recently received from an Iowa grower:----- 
“White Gold, some glad. At Ames, Iowa Show, this year, we won Grand Champion 3 Spikes 
of the whole show with White Gold - they measured 7 inches in diameter ----” 
Many similar comments have been received. 
These are some of the points that have made White Gold the leader in the cream 
section — 
Although in the mammoth class, White Gold is by no means stiff or coarse: quite 
the contrary, every spike is distinctly graceful, with florets never crowded, and each spike 
has a very definite individuality of its own. 
Its color is distinctive, a rich cream blending to a golden throat which gives the im- 
pression of great depth. Close examination will disclose that the cream color is due to 
reticulations of light gold which permeate all petals. 
The substance is heavy, with the edges of the petals more or less frilled and waved. 
The recuperative power of the florets is quite remarkable, - spikes which have been shipped 
considerable distances and were out of water for several days, will freshen up to look as 
if they had never been out of water at all, which should make White Gold an exceptionally 
good shipping variety; it will also open to the very top of the spike. 
White Gold is, apparently, practically immune to all glad diseases. No other glad excels 
it in robustness and vigor. In any planting, it can usually be spotted by its vigorous plant 
growth - leaves three inches and over broad are the rule. It is an exceptionally good propa- 
gator, producing plenty of large bulblets which germinate practically 100%, and, under 
favorable growing conditions, many will produce #2 and #1 bulbs the first year. It is a 
fact that, in order to produce sufficient planting stock - #5 & #6 - I find that it is ne- 
cessary to delay the planting of bulblets until well along in the season. 
By no means the least important of White Gold’s claims for consideration is the fact 
that it is one of the very earliest glads in commerce, blooming in 65-70 days. 
Florists have found White Gold without a peer for arrangements, especially in baskets, 
vases, or sprays, and no one can fully appreciate its possibilities until he has seen it in 
such arrangements. 
