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THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER'S 
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Varieties with high percentages but not enough votes— 
Connecticut Yankee, Dusty Miller, Intruder, Marlene Both and Pioneer. 
Sixteen (16) varieties repeated from 1944 Poll. 
Eleven (11) varieties repeated from 1942 Poll. 
Four (4) varieties—Algonquin, Picardy, Margaret Beaton and Snow Princess—repeated 
from 1940 Poll. 
1946 CANADIAN VARIETY SYMPOSIUM 
COLOR CLASS LEADERS 
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le White and Creamy White 
1. Lead’g Lady 2. Silver Wings 
Lie Blush White and Pink with White or 
Creamy White. 
IX. Scarlet and Light Red 
1. Firebrand 2. Commando 
X. Red, Crimson and Dark Red 
1. Red Charm 2. Red Viking 
1. Corona 2. Benison 
: XI. Maroon Red and Black Red 
soy heats 1. Black Opal 2. Black Magi 
1. Golden State 2. Yangtze Semi rail it a agic 
IV. Orange, Orange-Yellow, Apricot and XII. Mauve and Mauve Pink 
Buff. 1. Huntress 2. Eliz’b’th the Queen 
1. Athlone 2. Orange Gold Xiliabusnle 
¥. ree Salmon, Light Coral and Light Il Lancaster 2 Purple Supreme . 
ose. 
1. Mystery 2. Greta Garbo XIV. Violet 
VI. Salmon, Orange-Salmon, and Red- 1. Blue Beauty 2. Robert Burng 
Salmon. | XV. Smoky, Ash, Bronze and Copper 
1. Spitfire 2. Dieppe 1. Tunia’s 2. Mrs. C. W. 
VII. Rose Salmon and Salmon Rose. Mahomet Gannett 
1. Eglantine 2. Zona XVI. White, Light and Medium Colors with 
VIII. Medium and Deep Rose Conspicuous Darker Blotch 
1. Burma 2. Miss Wisconsin 1. Spotlight 2. Margaret Beaton 
CHANGES FROM CGS TABULATION 
Orange Gold in 2nd place Class IV instead of Grenadier. 
Spitfire and Dieppe reversed in Class VI. 
Zona in 2nd place Class VII instead of Marguerite. 
Huntress and Elizabeth the Queen reversed in Class XII. 
Purple Supreme in 2nd place Class XIII instead of Mrs. Mark’s Memory. 
Robert Burns in 2nd place Class XIV instead of Blue Admiral. 
We are again indebted to Mr. Charles Engelder of Wellsville, N. Y., for the above tabu- 
lations. His doughty comptometer seems to arrive at conclusions a bit more scientifically 
than the methods employed by the C. G. S. symposium committee. 
GRAND CHAMPION BLOOMS 
The Grand Champion Bloom of the Show 
is, ipso facto, a sweepstakes award to the 
best spike in the Exhibition, wherever found. 
If not so chosen we prefer not to list them. 
Some (not many) hybridizers and catalog- 
ers are very loose in their use of the words 
“Winners,” ‘‘Champions,” etc. For your own 
protection, scrutinize these assertions closely 
and see if the winning is identified to time 
and place. An honest introducer of new var- 
ieties will be reasonably sure to specify rather 
than generalize or use language intended to 
deceive. 
In recent years many of the larger shows 
have provision for sectional and division 
champions. Topping these, most sizeable 
shows now provide for the single spike Grand 
Champion Bloom of the Show. A few of 
them, where enough hybridizers exhibit to 
warrant, provision is made for Champion 
Seedling Bloom. 
Grand Champions in major shows about 
the world inside the last six vears follow: 
Aladdin—Md., ’42; Sask. and E. N. Y., 
"43; LeRoy, Ill. and Yakima Valley, ’44; 
Yakima, ’45. 
Algonquin—-Sioux City and Grants Pass, 
"41; Wis., Wellsville, O., LeRoy, IIL, ’45. 
