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Our 10 favorites for 1946... 
(growing favorites) 
1. LEADING LADY 6. KING CLICK 
2. LADY JANE 7. HIGH FINANCE 
3. GENGHIS KAHN 8. SPOTLIGHT 
4. WHITE GOLD 9. RED CHARM 
5. COLOSSUS 10, SNOW PRINCESS 
We consider many more which we grow equally as beautiful in form of floret or 
color as these ten but for sheer satisfaction of growing these can hardly be 
beat. There are several however pushing these for top honors as "good doers." 
One is Purple Supremee..one of the best all-around growers in anybody's garden 
but occasionally it will slip its color in soggy weather, LEADING LADY is 
simply a lady in every respect and since we all love a woman for her womanly 
qualities it is only natural that we should love this one...she has everything, 
Beauty - Health and Vigor galore. We think she will lead the list for some 
time. 
LADY JANE is another grower" s delight..»Dependable is her virtue as well as 
beauty...You can't be in business very long without dependable glads and this 
is one you can "depend" on for a near 100% crop of perfect spikes, can pass 
for a pale yellow too with those two lower creamy yellow lip petals. GENGHIS 
KAHN was a complete disappointment to us for two years but we guess it was 
planted in probably the worst part of our garden for two seasons in a rowe 
This last season we gave our bulbs a good soaking in New Improved Ceresan and 
planted them along with our others on new ground and not without great mis- 
givings too, But what a lot of beating that Gilad will take. This variety 
came back in grand style and bloomed for us in all of its SCHEER beauty, We 
sold every spike we could cut from fours up and at premium prices too, and 
when we harvested the bulbs they were beauties with plenty of bulblets, One 
of the features about it we haven't liked heretofore was its supple stem but 
the florists to whom we sold it found it great for large piece work. We had 
a grand spike of it at the East Lansing Seedling and R.I. Show where it won 
in the single spike special Championship Class. We were so impressed with 
it that we were impelled to call Dr. Scheer long distance and express our- 
selves, gratefully for such a beautiful creation, This is one we are going 
along with, 
WHITE GOLD has been one of our real stand-bys for a commercial for three 
years and we like her tremendously in spite of her “short comings" (head’ 
from small bulbs). You must plant large bulbs for best results. What a 
grower end bulb maker! COLOSSUS, we think has been way overlooked as an 
early commercial and show glad too. Try her and see for yourself. KING 
CLICK is "King" of our menage of reds and we have close to forty of them. 
RED CHARM is very close and a trifle different in tone, but a real grower 
and beauty. HIGH FINANCE won for us the Grand Championship at the Michigan 
Glad Society Show at Ann Arbor in 1945 and was again sectional Champ at 
S.E.M.G.S. Show in Detroit this last summer. It is a grand Fall color and 
to our way of thinking one of the best Smokey's out today, healthy and a 
strong grower for us. 
