

14 CLASS 50 Light Red 
450 Ardent Del Ray Dr. Verhage Flaming Meteor 
Rose Defiant Signal Qhio 
Hard to discontinue - but others seem better. with chemical fertilzerse Cow or sheep manure is fine= put in barrell 
and keep the barrell filled with water next to the garden. Both smell 
CLASS 50 Deep Red badly- and if your wife also grows vegetables in the glad garden she 
450 Hindenberg's Memory Paul Revere will be justified in objectinge However a weekly can of this water 
No comment. Just discarded. That's all. poured on the spike where it enters the ground can give you 8 to 1C 
inches more height and maybe an inch more floret width on the big 
CLASS 54 Black Red onese 
olen. slaearesssea or r1orcea giads can Olten ve recognisea at tne ShowSe 
Set ssa 8) ‘hen you force the spike taller you also increase tke space between 
Oeganda, blackest of them all, too short in flower head. 
Been my good friend for 5 years. Good bye Oegy. So I kiss 
her good bye. The others good but others better. 
florets and a forced or side dressed variety that is formal will 
crow like an informal. There was a Leading Ladyrosette winner at 
Wisconsin show that had five inches between florets- abnormal-= 
not representative of the flower- and only obtained by forcings 
forcing also tends to weaken the colors- makes them a touch more 
washed out. 
CLASS 60 Light Rose 
460 Isolla Bella Rose Marie Pfitzer 
360 Indian Princess 
Some fine old reliable show winners here. Good bye gals. 
3 : I dont use forcing because I cant for one thing- as I rate my flowers 
You were grand but the pace is getting faster now. 
and it would be unfair to rate a forced flower as it wovld not be 
a representative bloome Jor would any opinion of a glad that had to 
be forced to be real good be of any value to commercial growers - 
which we certainly want it to be. 
CLASS 62 Deep Rose 
360 Early Rose 
A real beauty and good commercial. 
Also in cutting your show spike be sure not to cut your spike below 
CLASS 66 lavender the four leaves- cut so as to leave four leaves on the plant. If you 
466 Hoosier Lady Reflection dont you will have the bottom of your spike white and in Indiana- 
566 Gertrude Swenson : possibly also in Ohio- I really dont know about either - but have that 
A grand old show winner, Gertrude - Monk May still loves impression- it will disqualify your spikes In the ilidwest we have been 
her - but, like me, is no longer true to her. very lax but may tighten up on that. Cutting below the fourth leaf 
kills or stunts bulb growth and you dont have to kill the bulb to get 
CLASS 70 Purple a show bloome 
470 Herbstfreude Kulshan Parnassus Rangoon 
570 Barbara Jane 
270 Graphic 
All good flowers - better not make any comments - as all I 
can say anyway is that others are better. 
This is just some of Hop's rambling comments. 

CLASS 76 Light Blue 
476 Allegroo Pfitzer's Success Raysheen 
Milford Harold Logan 
JOIN YOUR STATE GLADIOLUS SOCIETY 
CLASS 78 Deep Blue It costs but one dollar to join your state Gladiolus Society 
378 Readington Leonardo da Vinci and this brings you full participation in state and regional 
A pox upon you, unfaithful blues. I have sure been true to gladiolus shows- free admission to those shows- and the educat 
all of you for years - but now the blues gotta produce regular ional bulletins issued by the Society. The Illinois Gladiolus 
and good or out they go - hot or cold. Society have a quarterly called the Illinois Notebook which I 
edit. Indiana have a dandy called Gladland News, edited by 
CLASS 80 Smokey Leo Mathews, a splendid editor, Ohio and Empire State have 
480 Bagdad Penzance Tunia's Triumph fine bulletins with a great deal of new information on the new 
Good flowers but not good enough. That's all. varieties and improvements in gppwing and showinge Iowa has ies 
one of the oldest and best bulletins, edited by JeElton Carter, 
nationally famous as a writer on gladiolus. 
Of course the best dividend you get from joining your state 
gladiolus society is to meet theother members- who are, like 
yourself, lovers of the finest of all garden flowers- and you 
will find them the very salt of the entire earth - and very en-= 
joyable and wonderful people to lkmow and talk to and make friends 
withe If you simply want to grow fine flowers and give them to 
your frtends ysu will find a number of others who do the same 
thing. If you want to make some money selling cut flowers or 

Some notes on exhibition flowers - written mostly because bulbs- you will find a number of other members doing the same 
this space is left over and I want to fill it up. thing and only too glad to tell you how they do ite 
The New England Galiolus Society has an annual- with monthly 
In my notes on how to grow I advocate putting All your plant Magazine called The Gladiolus Magazine- which is combined the 
food into the ground before planting- which does away with best reading for the least money- 1.50 per year- in the entire 
side dressing- on thesis that it avoids that much additional worlde This annual has international acceptance and readership 
work and you can get top bloom without it. My start to avoid and by all means join up and subscribe to it through your local 
side dressing was plainly to avoid the work in the hot monthse gladiolus society who can give you a special price. 
I have always wanted to grow gladiolus with as little work as A new group- formed in 1944, called the North American Gladiolus 
is possible and have never "petted" the flowers- nor " raised Council are also planning a querterley- to come to you through 
them on a nursing bottle" though I have been accused of it. your local state gladiolus society. There is a world of interes 
ting reading matter to come regularly to you through joining 
Without side dressing - which is forcing- I won consistently your state society. 
throughout the Midest states - and had my first thousand ribbons 
last year. Nevertheless in all honesty I must admit that show blooms 
can be grown bigger- florets wider- spikes taller= by side dressing 
and during the last season = a short cold season- side dressing might 
have been necessary to get top show bloom. I imagine it was. If you 
are among those who want to side dress for show blooms I advise tie 
weekly dose of manure water as giving better results than side dressing 

