RED CHARM is perhaps the most outstanding red we 
have grown for some time. Has about everything one would 
care for in this color. HAWKEYE RED, from Heaton, made 
its debut in our garden, and believe this will be a very wel- 
come addition to the earlier blooming varieties in this color. 
DESTINY is a very tall, healthy grower, and we hope to be 
able to list this variety next year. GLIMMEREN, our own 
ORANGE RED, was about the first to bloom and can truth- 
fully say there was never a day all through the cut flower 
season that GLIMMEREN was not available for the cut flower 
market, with nary a bloom going to waste in the refrigerator. 
A vivid red that can be spotted by the visitors from any place 
in the field. 
MRS. MARK’S MEMORY was as usual tall and massive 
for size of floret in the purple class, with ELANORA show- 
ing off as fine a flower head of up to 12 open in the field. 
LEONA, while a little late blooming last season with us, is 
truly as clean cut a spike as one would care to grow, although 
it should. be planted early in this part of the country. 
GLOAMING was my favorite last year. While not new to the 
glad world, it is in my estimation a very outstanding flower 
for arrangement bouquets, having a tall, graceful spike of 
bright purple florets with attractive white throat. Neat is the 
way to describe it. BUENA VISTA was immense and rugged 
last season. Here is a variety which will be very much in 
demand if and when the stock becomes more plentiful. Bulb- 
lets seem to be hard to germinate, and it will probably mean 
the holding up of bulblets for a year in order to get this stock 
going. Rose red in color, will grow to six feet in height, with 
6 to 8 seven-inch florets open at once. 
Of the smokey varieties R. B. seems to be holding its own 
as a huge rusty golden brown on an old rose base. Florets 
seem to glisten in the sun as though sprinkled with glistening 
dust. FLYING FORTRESS, grown by us for the first time 
this past season, seems to be one which will be very much in 
demand when better known. An extremely large, round 
floret of dove gray blending toward a lavender with a small 
attractive red blotch on the lower petal. Will open to 6 as we 
saw it, but others claim it will open 12. 
To wind up the season, we had as much rain at digging 
time as we did in the spring for planting. The only good thing 
about it all being that our boy managed to get through ram- 
ming planes through the air for the Navy, and came home in 
time to help us ram bulbs through the mud, so we were practi- 
cally cleaned up with our digging efforts by Thanksgiving. 
Now that my time will be entirely taken up with the glads, we 
hope to be able to give all the old and the many new cutomers 
the service which we did in the past. Sorry that we are un- 
able to list in quantity lots this year, but due to the fact that 
our plantings will be increased it is necessary to retain a larger 
amount of stock for planting ourself. 
We hope to see you at the shows this coming season, and 
those of you who do not belong to any of the State Gladiolus 
Societies are missing out on a lot of good gladiolus information 
which is being disseminated by these organizations. John Huff, 
secretary of the Washington State Gladiolus Society, will be 
glad to accept your membership in this society. Mr. Huff's 
address is Orting, Washington. 
1946 SPRING PRICES 
QUANTITY LOTS ON PLANTING STOCK AND BULBLETS 
Bulblets 
Variety No.5 No.6 No.7-8 VY Pint Quart 
CASABLANCA: (Majeski):#) sg) 3 Jee ee ee ee ee eee ee _per 100— 6.00 4.00 ae 7.50 30.00 
COUTTS ORCHID. oc. ae era ea a peas” eye ew a Ey as 15.0003 
EAn EYER OS Eee ee eee en ee PO te eS PE GRED Pol oe a oe sec was 1.50 5.00 
ELANORBA 6.20 co ns ee in ip A Sk ir aes aes. is oa 12.50 40.00 
GLIMMEREN (sc. oscsdoc ccc sins eee be eee eee Bee ee ee ee a ee aes ae 30.00 80.00 
GOA Tien co oe ee a ee ee BoP is oR ai a 25.00 75.00 
LADY JANE A Siscs oc Se 8s ee en ee ae a ee _per 100— 4.00 3.00 2.00 5.00 15.00 
MASTERS WY RON fn ee aI UR ae aan eae NO ee oN ME aed eg nel ee ae ae See meee sia 3.06 10.06 
MRS. MARK’S “MEMORY .23 po ee ee eee _per 100— 4.00 3.00 2.00 6.00 18.00 
OREGON GOLD == Sova det tee eI Re EE Te ease Bae as aes 7.00 25.00 
PURPLE SUPREME virco rcc coerce eee ee ee _per 100— 10.00 8.00 6.00 20.00 50.00 
RED. CHAR Meise: areca eee ee a eee 2 a a ee fous panes 8.00, ae 
SILENTIU Mi. 22 ee a ee ee ee -per 100— 3.20 2.00 1.50 3.00 10.00 
STOPLIGHT 22 wccosct Le Se ee ee Re cee eee -per 100— 7.00 6.00 5.00 12.00 40.00 
SILENT OM oo NS NE Rai ee ell AC EE per 1000— 24.00 16.00 12.00 Bblis. per peck 60.00 
The following varieties in One-Year-Old Bulblets;s GOLDEN CHIMES, JOHAN S. BACH, MYRNA, PICARDY, and 
SHIRLEY TEMPLE. Priced at $2.00 per 2 pint. Per quart $6.00. 
Year-Old Bulblets, in other words holdovers, germinate necessary to hold some varieties over one year in order to get 
them to germinate. 
Warren “f. Dowling 
Bothell, Washington 
more readily than those dug the fall previous. In fact it is 
Route 1, Box 170 
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