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yw rrst of all I want to thank all my 1944 customers,,. 
the “First Timers", and the old customers too.Gladiolus 
_ hybridizing is a disappointing task at the best and your 
. orders have encouraged me. If you are thinking about 
. hybridizing glads for a living, take my advice and don't 
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want a facinating hobby, I recommend glad hybridizing. 
These glads are all my own seedlings except Perfume. 
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do it. If you love gardening and flowers, as I do, and . 
They have been patiently tested and selected from thou- _ 
_ Sands of seedlings over a period of eighteen years. I 
_ do not "pet" them in anyway, not even by watering. My 
~ past experience has been that they do better for most of 
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My customers than they do for me judging from the reports 
I have received. | 
This was a hard year around here on glads but a 
good year arouhd here to tést*seedlings. We had a very 
wet spring, then no rain from late June until early Sept. 
My one business rule protects you from all misrepre-— 
sentation; "YCU MUST BE UNCONDITIONALLY SATISFIED WITH- 
OUT ANY RESERVATION, AND YOU ARE TO BE. THE) JUDGE." 
Sincerely, 
ePdae Spencer 
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1945 INTRODUCTIONS. 


(dSUNE SCARLET (39-F8) 36-Dl (Predominator X Bennett) X 34- 
A 2 (Pfitzers Triumph X Purple Glory)Fisher's chart places 
this as Qrange red with dark réd tongue. It would be in 
the scarlet class.June Scarlet makes 5" blooms,5 open,4-6 
in color on a 51" always straight slender stem.June Scarlet 
is not a show glad. It blooms extra early, a week earlier 
than Pink Ribbon. In three years from April 1 planting it 
pLoomed June 19) 16 and 230 .y Ltblooms in. compstitucn. vith 
shipped in glads. This sold too well under number 12st 
year so stock is still small,All orders accepted suviest 
to previous sale. 
PRICE; --L $1.00; M $675 
SIS (39-F18) Pink Ribbon X Hon. 
Fishers Chart; Lightest Red shading to lightest yellow in 
throats This is not a blotched variety. Sis is a beautiful 
creamy pink shading lighter in the throat.Opens 6-8 in 
double row, 6 in color, 43" flower on 48" stem. It is e 
midseason bloomer. SIS produced fine snikes during the 
worst, drouth in years around Here, as did its parent. -Pink 
Ribbon, and its half sister Dependable.This should mare «. 
 -PRICE:-L $1.00; M $.75 
‘fine commercial."SIS" is the families name for our davghter. 
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