TONY 
Vagabond Prince X Rose Defiant 
(About 90 days) .. . Mammoth clear light chocolate 
with contrasting orange blotch and a picotee border 
of cream. Lightly ruffled; no flecking. If you like this 
color it should more than please you. Somewhat 
hooded, but otherwise very good. Fine propagator. 
Bulblets of easiest germination. The largest chocolate 
introduced so far. Shown only once at Ohio State 
(Akron), in 1944; won first and second, one and 
three-spike in same class, sectional champion in 500 
class. Stock not large, as it sold well last year. No. 4, 
$1.20; No. 5, 70 cents; No. 6, 40 cents; bulblets, 15 
cents, or 10 for $1.00. 
OHIO NONPAREIL 
(90 days) 1940 .. . Big informal red. Extra good 
commercial. Same prices as King Click. 
FLYING FORTRESS 
Peggy Lou X Marmora 
(90 days) ... The FORT is holding top place among 
the mamouth class smokies, or any other class. An 
enormous spike with an enormous floret; customers 
reporting up to eight inches and over. Fourteen open 
in show rooms, 21 buds, 30-inch flowerhead, 60 inches 
overall. Color is a beautiful shade of soft lavender 
gray with a small, attractive blotch. Selling well and 
seen in quite a few shows and gardens the past year, 
which is only a beginning. We will not take up more 
space here for description. You'll all be growing it 
anyway sooner or later. First and champion formal 
seedling at Tri-State; champion seedling, Pennsyl- 
vania State; American Home Ach. Southeast Michi- 
gan; first Ohio State at both Akron and Cleveland 
shows; all first year out in 1942; first Ohio State with 
a score of 92 points, the highest score ever awarded 
by the Ohio Society; first A. A. and best Ohio origina- 
tion at Ohio State (Akron); first and special for most 
open florets (13) in show at Ohio State (Cleveland), 
all 1944; show champion, Tennessee; longest flower- 
head at N.E.G.S., Boston; first Ohio State second show 
in 1945. It 1s just starting to win. Think you can win 
with it? Why not? Of course you can’t if you don’t 
have it. Price cut to about one-half this year and we 
think our stock sufficient to go around, even at these 
prices: No? 1, $l0;sNow2 bl 5-aNGwomo) 00mNo, 
4, 75 cents; No. 5, 50 cents; No. 6, 25 cents; bulblets, 
15 cents, or 10 for $1.00. 
