Page 14 THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
GROW SOME GLADIOLUS SEED 
This our eighth year of selling seed from crosses using what we consider the highest 
quality recent introductions and like imports often before their release for sale. Nowhere 
in the world has there been available any such high pedigree listing of seeds of thorough- 
breds even remotely comparable to our lists, though here and there a stray cataloger has 
tried it for a year or two. To do so takes thoroughbred varieties both of proven and ‘world 
beater’’ promise, hybridizing skill, time, patience and the luck of late season freedom from 
light as well as heavy frosts. Our first light frost has generally been around October 11th. 
Last year it was November 30 so our pods had plenty of time to ripen as we dug our entire 
crop of bulbs in November instead of the usual October because it was too wet to plant much 
in May and we gambled the loss of our entire planting for further bulb growth. So this year 
we have the seeds in good supply for a change and we suggest you seize the opportunity to 
grow some as our luck cannot last forever and our time and patience may give out as well. 
All glad fans should try some gladiolus seed. Most advanced amateurs already do attempt 
some hybridizing with their newest varieties or most favored colors. Gladiolus seed broadcast 
or planted thickly in close rows, covered about 34 inch, kept on moist side and with at least 
partial shade, commonly produces bulbs 4% to 3 inches diameter the first crop. Most of these 
bloom the second year and selections may be made on color values, the bulb selected and its — 
bulblets thereafter grown under number pending full performance from a large bulb. 
All modern varieties were so produced, either from field collected or hand hybridized seed. 
Our seed offerings are genuinely hand hybridized. Literally hundreds watched us hybridizing 
our glads at the peak of our blooming season. Most of the pollen used was taken from protected 
florets opened indoors. Mr. Lee Patton, for many years executive chairman and now Super- 
visor of Judges of the Ohio State Gladiolus Society and Dr. C. A. Masek, former president, 
did most of the hybridizing. 
No two seeds, even from the same cross and pod, produce flowers just alike, though they are 
likely to favor parent characteristics. 
With about the most exclusive collection of ‘“‘world beaters” to be found in the U. S., we 
have excellent opportunity to produce intriguing crosses, which in turn should rather con- 
sistently produce some seedlings above the average run of good standard varieties in each color 
class. They do for us. 
The only trouble is that we are as likely as not to part with some outstanding sorts worthy 
of introduction as a named variety. That may be your luck. If you grow such from our seed 
we should like first opportunity to introduce them for you. 
it might be advisable to let you know that it is the custom in the gladiolus industry that 
the person who grows and segregates the seedling bulb is given the credit of being the “‘origi- 
nator’ of the variety if it is named and introduced—not necessarily the person who made the 
actual cross. If a lot of new “originators” do not appear in four to five years as the net 
result of our offering these select crosses we will be greatly surprised. 
Permitting seed to set decimates bulblet production. Likely we sacrifice bulblets on rare 
new sorts to an extent that seed sales at these prices cannot remotely compensate us for this 
loss. Perhaps contribution to variety improvement will be our only compensation. 
Try your luck and skill in selection of parents. Depending on stocks available we will try 
to be very liberal. Seeds are 5c each. 
How to order. Order in units of 5 (minimum), 10, 15 or 20 (maximum) seeds of a given 
cross. The seed bearing parent is the first variety mentioned. Canadian and other foreign 
customers do not have to secure a permit to import seeds. Crosses are identified by number 
for your and our convenience. Order by number (as “‘5 seeds No. 601—$.25’’). 
601 37173 (Butt) x Abu Hassan (deepest 605 Abu Hassan x Strathnaver (looks ex- 
blue onto a good medium-light blue that tremely promising to us—we need 
pees a Weert 606 Bins Lagoon x Blué Ios (pee ) 
602 39551 (Butt) giant blackish rose red x le agoon X Bile: 1 Ce. \SUp eee 
Strathnaver (we think the world’s best 607 Bobby Dazzler x Joe Stalin (all bed 
white and we give it 6 years to rate the Bobby crosses have proven “hot’’). 
prorld's heat clackanvicalaen 608 Bobby Dazzler x Sir Galahad (a proven 
603 39551 (Butt) as above x Snow Cruiser. cross, produces a Wide Tangea@i jeu: 
S38, 63820 (Evans) big strong eream x All ght oranges), (in 45 sold under No 
ory. J 
L number on a different cross). 
537 63820 (Evans) as above x Red Charm. 609 Boldfacex Joe Stalin (should be a sturdy 
604 Abu Hassan x Mrs. E. Both. family). 
