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DEEP SALMON 32 
532 Miss Cobbles Pioneer - ~ - - - 81 Aurora- - - - - 81 
Kill- ----- 83 Aladdin - - - - - 81 Ogarita - - - - 82 
Collossus - - - -81 Miss New Zealand-8s0 
Picardy - - - - - 82 
432 First Lady- - - -83 Lombardy- - - - - 82 Glamis- - - - - 82 
Neils M Jensen- -80 Tara- - - - - - - 80 
Miss Cobbleskill a big, fine 7" slightly ruffled and laci- 
nated. Pioneer, aM formal - fine spike. Aurora is very fine. 
First Lady, Mr. Roberts calls deep pink, but my vote is a deep 
salmon - is a light center edged and picotted deep salmon - fine 
formal, 53" spike. Glamis is grand beauty - wonderful pointed 
florets. Collossus sometimes lacks beauty. Aladdin reported 
hard to get a good one. Miss New Zealand a 7" with some beauti- 
ful big spikes. Picardy is averaging lower in paints. Many 
grand Picardy sports are showing up but must wait until they 
confirm themselves in color. 
SCARLET 36 
536 Blaze- - - - - - 80 Red Lightning- - 80 Flagship- - - - 80 
436 Mercury- - - - - 81 Beacon - - - - - 80 Liberator - - - 80 
St. Edward - - - 80 Spitfire - - - - 80 Harmao- - - - - 80 
é22 Jean Hoxie - - - 
A hard color to classify as it is an orange with red in it. 
Brightest of all reds. Flagship is 6" and can open 10 on tre- 
mendous spike. Mercury looks best of others. The 4" floret, 
Jean Hoxie opens 10-11 - and that makes a mighty pretty flower. 
LIGHT FINK 40 
540 Eglantine- - - - 85 Calybso- - - - - 81 RosaVanLima- - -80 
Stella Antisdale 82 
440 Ivy Robertson- - 83 lLavolier - - - - 82 Fort Ti- - - - - 82 
Greta Garbo- - - 82 Ethel Cave Cole- 82 Corona - - - - - 82 
Dream Castle - - 81 High Command - - 81 Salutation - - -82 
Legend - - - - - 81 Normandie- - - - 80 Lovely Lady- - -80 
Fralance - - - - 80 Mandaleen- - - - 80 Northern Light -80 
Morning Serenade 80 Pandora- - - - - 80 
330 Variation- - - - 81 Camrose- - - - - 81 
Ivy Robertson goes to a tremendous flower head as long as 40" 
- a grand flower. Others in this rich, natural gladiolus color 
all fine. Eglantine - today queen of all glads - is a breath- 
taking spike of very great beauty. I like all the others but my 
favorites are Lavolier, Calypso, Stella Antisdale, Fort Ti, Sal- 
utation and Dream Castle. A color class rich in fine glads and 
lots of good ones - some very low in price. 
DEEP PINK 42 
542 Crescendo- - - - 82 California- - - -82 Big Top - - - - 80 
New Zealand Margarite - - - - 80 
Splendor - - - 80 
442 Summer Gal - - - 82 Nanette - - - - - 81 Marion Pearl- - 83 
Rosy Morn Titan ----- - 80 Cantabile - - - 81 
(Marshall) - - 80 Show Queen- - - -82 Lord Athlone- - 80 
Phoebe - - - - - 81 W. R. Reader- - -83 Sensation - - - 80 
Margaret Marie - 82 
Excell - - - - - 80 
342 Doris Jean - - - 80 Jeannie - - - - - 81 
Crescendo one of really good new ones - a formal. Summer Gal 
is promising. Nanette light in color - but model spike. Marion 
Fearl opening 12 is a marvel but scarce for 3 years. Contabile 
a great color combination. Phoebe a lush bloomer and a pleasure 
to watch grow. Show Queen of exquisite color has some crooks - 
but they too are beautiful. Margaret Marie a grand pink with 
red center is marvelously lovely formal. W. R. Reader a very 
bright pink with white center is one of best and a grand new 
commercial. 
LIGHT RED 50 ) 
550 Dieppe- - - - - - 85 Commando- - - - - 82 
450 King Bee- - - - - 83 Walletia- - - - - 80 
350 Hawkey Red- - - - 80 
A hard color to define. Dieppe is best new glad of 1945 - 
10 open 6" florets - terrific spike but King Bee in this year 
was also tremendous and a great beauty. Commando is 7" - opens 
5 and lovely. Those three are the big news in this color. 
RED 52 
552 Algonquin- - - - & King Click- - - -83 Intruder- - - - 83 
Red Charm(Butt) 82 
452 Red Fox- - - - - 83 Crimson Tide- - -82 Burgundy- - - - 81 
Timbuctoo- - - - 81 Twenty Grand- - -80 Rampart - - - - 80 
Centennial - - - 80 Firebrand - - - -80 Regent- - - - - 80 
Kenwood- - - - - 80 Colcha- - - - - - 80 Red Rascal- - - 80 
352 Stoplight- - - - 80 
Algonquin best of all reds - big - 10 open - wonderful. King 
Click almost as good. Intruder also very fine but could open '2 
more and be better. The Canadian Red Charm very good. Red Fox a 
big one of fine color - very tall. Crimson Tide a beautiful 
deep red but in this class is different from all others - 
velvety petals. Twenty Grand new and promising as is Rampart - 
a red Ivy Robertson sport. Firebrand and Red Rascal. Timbuctoo 
almost as good as Algonquin. Kenwood can give 6" florets. 
Twenty Grand very promising. 
BLACK RED 54 
554 Royal Garnett- - 82 Black Panther- - 80 Danny Danton- - 80 
Rewi Fallu - - - 80 } 
A54 Arabella oe e079 Blacks NagiC—s— mand Black Opal- - - 79 
Midnight Red - - 79 Mohawk - - - - - 79 Matoaka - - - - 79 
354 Black Diamond- - 79 
The three in the over 5$" class are the best - the others too 
dull in color and none, apparently, being real good two years in 
a row and not too good then. Royal Garnett has beauty of color 
and big formal spike. Black Panther and Danny Danton have size 
- very important in this doubtful color - doubtful because not a 
beautiful color. Just a novelty color. 
LIGHT ROSE 60 
560) Rima-)=) = == =) = 83 Candy Splash- - -81 
460 Magnolia- - - =- - 83 Ballad- - - - - - 82" So Big= = =eaae 80 
Rima is low priced but still hard to locate but a grand big 
light rose rimmed glad - a good one being something wonderful. 
Candy Splash comes sometimes splashed, sometimes edged with 
light rose pink. Magnolia and Ballad are two extremely beauti- 
ful glads - each being low priced. So Big is self light rose - 
sometimes over 53" florets. 
DEEP ROSE 62 
562 Burma- - - - - - 81 
462 Silvery Teton- - 83 Barbara- - - - - 80 Coutt's Orchid- 80 
362 Sunshine May - - 80 is fine rose with white center. 
Burma very beautiful deep ruffled rose but loses points as 
does not open over 3-5 at one time. Silvery Teton - two flat 
tones of rose purple looks handsome and is dependable grower 
and bloomer. Barbara is rose with light center and very pretty. 
Coutt's Orchid lovely deep rose with salmon edge and white cen- 
ter took us all by storm but has lost points due to bad place- 
ment and loss of some of original color charm. 
LAVENDER 66 
566 Minstrel- - - - - 81 
466 Badger Beauty - -82 Lavender Prince- 82 Minuet- - - - - 81 
Eliz the Queen- -81° Frances Irwin- - 80 Lavender Ruffles80 
366 Early Melody- - -80 Eloise - - - - - 80 
Minstrel grand but should come taller and open more. I rate 
Badger Beauty and Lavender Prince a point ahead of Elizabeth the 
Queen which is inclined to have a short flower head. Lavender 
Prince is very fine and new. 
PURPLE 70 
570 Mrs. Mark's Vulean- - - - - - 81 
Memory- - = - = 81 
470 Elanora - - - - - 81 Purple Supreme- -81 Ellwood- - - - - 80 
Purple Beauty - -80 King Lear - - - -81 
370 Twilight Rose - -80 Eunice Ewing- - -81 Beverley - - - -80 
Athena- - - - - - 81 
Of top two Vulcan was the best in '45. Mrs. Mark's Memory 
opens 7 with 64" florets and is a grand flower. Elanora will 
open 13 but Purple Supreme which opens 10 is lovelier color. 
Twilight Rose is fine self. Eunice Ewing is a beauty - purple 
with white center - opens 8 with 4" florets - decorative. 
Athena usually classed as 200 class has marvelous painted flor- 
ets and goes 4 inches easily - grand color. It really is a 
small decorative but those long points on the petals measure up 
in inches. 
LIGHT BLUE 76 
476 Blue Beauty- - - - 80 Jeannie James- - 80 Blue Wonder- -80 
376 Magic- - -- - - - 80 
There are no blues over 5% inches. Top 3 about equal - good 
growers - good color - lovely in baskets - popular with florists 
and flower lovers. Magic is grand small decorative - blue with 
white center but again I take a small decorative measure it into 
the 300 class - and hope I am fair. 
DEEP BLUE 
378 Oberbayern- - - - - 80 
There are no good deep blues over 4% inches. 
beauty - a decorative with white center. Fine show flower also. 
Please someone get us some deep blues. We need the color very 
much indeed but Blue Admiral simply is not good enough. 
Oberbayern is a 
