We will be unable to quote wholesale on any- 
thing unless possibly Ohio Nonpareil, and as 
always the early orders get the preference on size, 
and again we caution order early as last year we 
were compelled to return many orders late in the 
season. 
NO ORDERS ACCEPTED FOR LESS THAN 
$3.00. 
1945 INTRODUCTIONS 
VICTORY QUEEN 
Mrs. Richard McGovern X Christabel 
(About 90 days) ... Right honorable Queen of 
the glad beauty debutantees with a very neat show 
record so far. Leading authorities who have seen 
it are unanimous in pronouncing it the finest Wil- 
son origination to date. Rich salmon orange with 
deep cream throat. Has never shown a fleck 
front or back. Beautifully ruffled wide open 5/4 
inch floret (we have had many 6 inch under 
favorable growing conditions), 8 open, 21 buds, 
28 inch flowerhead, 60 inches tall. Strong at- 
tachment on straight strong stem. Informal (some 
spikes almost formal) with excellent placement 
on the large majority. Only markings a couple 
small red dots at bottom of throat. Champion 
informal sdlg. at W. Va. 1942. Ohio Award of 
Merit 1943. Champion sdlg. and color champion 
of the show at Tri-State. Champion sdlg. and 
runner up for color champion (to Frances M. 
Irwin) at Ohio State (Akron the big Ohio show). 
First both one and three spike sdlg. at Ohio State 
(Cleveland) from small bulbs, all 1944. Only 
times shown. We take the utmost pleasure in 
being able to present this fine super-glad to our 
customers this year at an introductory price out of 
all proportion of its real value. 
Many reservations received from show patrons 
who saw it at the 1944 shows and were thrilled with 
its beauty as well as its show and commercial 
qualities, even before prices were set. 
While blts. gave excellent germination for us, 
they were planted in a piece of ground that dried 
out very readily, coupled with our extremely dry 
summer was instrumental in producing very few 
top size No. 5-6, which will be sold out early, if not 
already. However we do have a good stock of No. 
3-4 sizes. 
In six years of blooming with us, Victory Queen 
has never produced but one spike to a bulb of any 
size. We carefully dug ten bulbs just as they came 
in the row (from No. 3 planted) securing all blts. 
and the sum total was 589 blts. of good size. 
YOUsMUS? VHAVESEORS 194533 sABSO- 
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