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Mrs. E. Both 
A 42 inch flowerhead 

THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER'S 
DIEPPE (Hassal) 85 ** + ttt Class 432. 
Deep, red salmon, blotched deeper. 
Slightly waved and ruffled. Medium tall 
spikes with excellent cut flower habits 
and good color. Fast propagator. 
L $1.00 M .75 S .50 Bits (100, $8.00). 
“HARMAU (Both) 72 **+ fff Exh. Com. 
A highly desirable new color, difficult to 
describe or classify. An orange red with 
distinctly rosy overtone, throat deeper. 
Enough ruffling to enhance the beauty of 
the well placed, giant, wide open florets. 
Five times winner of the award ‘‘Cham- 
pion Commercial Type Variety” in 
Australia. This alone should apprise you 
of its worth. However, we give further 
detail. Foliage and stem deep green. Tall, 
strong and wiry stem holding firmly 6-9 
giant florets open on 18-20 bud, stretchy 
type spike. A massed display of this 
variety is an unforgetable sight. In fact, 
the ‘‘Champion Bowl” arrangement, S. A. 
G. S., '40 had an overall width of full 9 
feet. Tremendous propagator. Very early. 
Blooms freely from bulblets and makes 
massive spikes from small bulbs. First 
Class Certif., S. A. G. S., '’41. At its 
present low price it is very probably the 
best commercial investment to be had 
today, all colors considered. 
L .15 M .10 S .05 Bits (100, .50). 
SPITFIRE (Evans) 80 *+ 7 ff{ This grand 
glad starts out as a named variety with 
plenty of competitive show experience. 
Color is clear, irridescent, rosy toned sal- 
mon, whitethroat marked with several small 
cherry lines. 5 inch florets, wide open, 
slightly ruffled. Opens 8-10 easily. Power- 
ful plant, strong stem, no crooking, bloom 
very long lasting. Propagation medium, 
otherwise wonderful cut flower qualities. 
In '38 it won as 3 spike Exh. seedling, 
then Champion Seedling and Ind. Soc. 
Silver Medal at Ind. In ’39 at Ohio it 
received one of the very few Awards of 
Merit it has yet given. In ’41 it won for 
us as follows: a first at Wellsville, the 
American Home Achievement Medal for 
most meritorious undisseminated gladiolus 
at W. Va. and repeated for similar medal 
at the Mich. state show. Thus, Spitfire 
followed in the footsteps of its ‘“‘brother’”’ 
seedling Hurricane, which won the award 
at’ Mich. the year before. Myrna alone 
won more special awards in the ’42 shows. 
At the 2nd Ohio ( R. I. and Sdlg) show, 
Cleveland, ’42, Spitfire won a 1st in color 
class, longest flowerhead in show, Section 
Champion, Grand Champion of the 
show and reaffirmation of Award of Merit, 
at 88 points, a new high score for Ohio. 
In ’44 in the shows reported it won 4 firsts, 
one section champion, one top scoring 
R. I., Grand Champion of the Show again 
at the Cleveland (Ohio) together with 
still another reaffirmation of Award of 
