SMOKEY 80 
580 High Finance- - - -g9 Gray Dawn- - - -g2 Flying Fortresss82 
R.Be= = = = = = -'- 8200 Siwas heuer se 81 Tunia's Mohometso 
400 Romany= -—- — .._ 2 82 Tecumseh - - - -~g2 Buckeye Bronze 80 
Show Boat - - - - - 80 Jack Pot - - - -80 Daniel Boone — 80 
580 Mother Machree- - -g0 Intrepid -~ - - -80 Xerxes - ~~ _ 80 
Here are 15 good smokeys - six of them by the King of the 
Smokey producers, George Wilson. High Finance is tan and Flying 
Fortress bluish - both big - free bloomers - both very lovely. 
Gray Dawn from down under is my pet and its streaked gray and 
white makes a lovely color indeed - that goes with all and any 
other bright colors. Tunia's Mahomet has not opened as many as 
expected but may do so later. Romany is deep smokey plum with 
red center. Jack Pot a bright plum self. Buckeye Bronze and 
R.B. grand tans. Siwash is brown and white and may not stay 
popular - hard to predict. Tecumseh is very good. 
ANY OTHER COLOR 
590 Robinson Crusoe- - - 80 
4 900 Zanz ibar seu) Smee 80 Oklahoma—- —- = — — 81 
Minstrel is smokey enough to be in this class. Robinson 
Crusoe is a lovely whitish brown streaked edges novelty - very 
pretty combination. Oklahoma is good and Zanzibar ~ a ruffled 
chocolate - is also. 

VARIETIES DISCARDED AT END OF 1945 
GROWING SEASON. 
Heretofore I have given this list some privacy by making 
people who want it send me 5 cents and then mail them separately 
a mimeographed copy. However there are between 450 and 500 who 
write.for them and it takes too much time to handle them - as 
writing for the lists cause many to write letters that require 
answering. There is nothing I love more than answering glad- 
iolus letters but I attempt too much every year and simply have 
to cut down. While many advise me it is unfair and unwise to 
print this list I am doing it this year and hope and pray it is 
never unfair and not too unwise. 
Please everybody understand that the flowers listed on lists 
such as this one are mostly very beautiful flowers - but in my 
own personal judgement there are others in their size and color 
class that are better. That is all the list means. [In my ef- 
forts to keep down the number of varieties in my garden I con- 
tinue to grow only those on my best list - plus those held over 
for another year's growing - because I was not sure how to rate 
them this year. Each year I grow about one hundred new varie- 
ties and seedlings and altogether that keeps my total varieties 
down to a little under 400 which is as much as I can handle with 
careful growing and keeping records. 
Emblem of Furity 
North Pole 
CLASS 00 White 400 Tunola Materhorn 
Nana Van White 
Krijtberg Schoonard 
300 Casablanca 
Nana, the purest white of all, goes out as no increase. 
Materhorn has been promising for 5 years and that's too long a 
wait. Krijtberg and Schoonard - two good European varieties go 
out because others are better. Casablance I am selling as it 
appears popular but in my book it is discarded. 
CLASS 06 Cream 506 Shirley Temple Wanda Bingo 
406 Harmony June Bride 
306 Mary Elizabeth 
Too hard to get a good Shirley. Bingo a real beauty and 
barely squeezed out after a fine record. Mary Elizabeth stayed 
in the best picture for a great many years - and I will continue 
to love her even when she is gone from my garden. 
CLASS 10 Light Yellow 
410 Autumn Gold Manchu Ruffled Beauty 
Lidice Yellow Faradise 
210 Babs Comet 
Manchu is a new one - as is Babs. The two in 210 class don't 
mean anything as I do not grow small decoratives. Yellow Para- 
dise is a good commercial but yellows are getting a tiny bit 
better and others are better due to its short flower head. 
13 
Hope you continue to research and inform Growing public of 
those things not worth continuing on with. This suves the amu- 
teur a great waste of time, money and much cussing. Jt 1s ap- 
prectuted. V.E.P. - Eau Claire, Ws. 
CLASS 12 Deep Yellow 
412 Helen Beatrice 
Not good enough. After 5 years' trial. 
CLASS 16 Buff None. 
CLASS 20 Orange 
420 Barcarole 
320 Mirage 
220 Pinnochio or 320 
Barcarole is a honey and say goodbye regretfully. Amberglow 
was also a grand flower - but variable in performance. Mirage 
is good commercial but I don't see orange and yellow combina- 
tions. Pinnochio is 300 class and loveliest daylight glad 
there is. But out it finally goes. 
Amberglow 
CLASS 30 Light Salmon 
430 Noweta 
The originator discarded two years before I did and he was 
right. 
CLASS 32 
432 Heart String 
Sue Ellen 
332 Jean Hoxie 
Sue Ellen my special pet and a great beauty seems subject to 
disease. 
Junior Miss 
Wolverine State 
CLASS 36 Scarlet 
436 Rocket 
Just a bit too short a spike - tho flower head is okey. 
CLASS 40 Light Pink 
540 Merry Widow Mellowglow 
440 Awatea Blessed Damsel 
Festival Queen Gayly Clad 
540 Lady Boo 
My grand Merry Widow - a real beautiful heart breaker - does 
not open enough of her grand pointed florets. Others barely 
out - but out. Lady Boo lost to Variation. Too nearly alike 
to have both and Variation won by a neck. 
Komiri Margo 
CLASS 42 Deep Pink 
442 Beautiful Dream 
Valor 
342 Birmingham Beauty 
Phyllis is another grand old reliable show table winner that 
finally gets squeezed out by better ones. 
Cover Girl Phyllis McQuiston 
