The bluish tone pink Crescendo is very good. Miss Vermont in blush lavender rose is 
really a new color and a fine performer. Put Lady Luck in your “must have” list, beautiful 
peaches and cream color, and a consistent performer. Connecticut Yankee is great. Martha 
Deane offers a yellow of excellent color sheen and height. Abigail, Crown Orchid, Huntress 
and Lavender Prince form an excellent lavender quartet. Fuchsia Belle has an outstanding 
color in artificial light, Miss Wisconsin is tops in rose shades. 
A broader view resume of the color classes is also in order. 
Leading Lady and Silver Wings are great glads. Heavenly White with its blue white 
color performs very well. Llona in smaller sized flowers is fine for floral work. Mt. Index 
offers a white with a yellow (not cream) throat. It looks very good. 
Oriental Pearl is the best cream introduction in many a year. It with Lady Jane, 
and White Gold, for the early flowers makes a fine trio, which with Corona give variety 
of choice to the grower. Parma introduced as Purple Heart, bids fair for commercial con- 
sideration. Bonnie Jeanne and Exclusive are superb flowers for the glad fans. 
Spotlight, yellow with a scarlet blotch, is in justifiable great demand. Martha Deane, 
while not startling, is a great yellow. Van Gold is fine for early bloom, and noteworthy 
for its deep yellow color. Crinkle Cream is a very satisfactory yellow. Golden State is 
perhaps the greatest exhibition variety in this color class, and shows some promise of 
being a commercial variety. Oregon Gold is fine where its late season does not handicap 
it. 
Color Marvel, a glorified Nuthall, and Diane rule the orange color group as to color. 
The former together with Gratitude and Orange Gold, the most promising of the newer ones 
in this class make this color section stronger. Lantana is a good commercial. Kestrel will 
appeal to the size worshippers. 
The scarlet Color class contains two fine glads Stoplight and Dieppe. Firebrand and 
Intruder are very promising. King Bee is a real attention getter. 
Red Charm is ‘still tops in this class if availability is considered. Hawkeye Red 
looks to have merit. Black Diamond, a black red, appeals to the florists. Tarawa has class. 
Red Rascal and Revlon are good. 
Purple Supreme still looks good. It apparently cannot do its best in excessively hu- 
mid weather. Fuchsia Belle will appeal to the florists. Lancaster is a rival of King Lear. 
In rose red, Burma is well received for its giant size and ruffled florets.. 
Miss Wisconsin is the choicest rose co.ored gladiolus. Tralee in pale rose with its 
fine spikes and excellent habit from the florists point of view, is a real commercial. Both 
will be grown for many years. Francis Irwin, a medium rose, and with a darker blotch 
is in better supply. Crescendo, classed as a rose is a very fine gladiolus. In rose pink, 
Dream Girl is in a class by itself. A beauty for the fancier and showman, and a great 
commercial for any one who has enough bulbs of it. 
Badger Beauty, Elizabeth the Queen top the older lavenders. Abigail with its many 
open large florets is very promising, as is Huntress, which combines earliness with great 
bloom bulk. Crown Orchid did very well from small sized bulbs. Lavender Prince in a 
darker shade of lavender is excellent. Hoosier Lady, with its round ruffled florets will 
please many cut flower producers. Miss Vermont, of excellent habit, and pale lavender 
rose florets is great. Minstrel is big enough to please any size fan. 
Blue Lagoon and Blue Ice both look promising. The former is a dark violet, and the 
later a light violet. 
To name the best of the salmon colored group is indeed difficult, Bridesmaid, Pi- 
oneer, Madeline Brown, Dream Castle and Praire Beauty are tops or very near the top. 
Exemplar in smaller floret size is good. Summer Gal has fine color, and after more are 
grown it may easily turn out to be the best. Ogarita is a fine late variety. Brittany looks 
good. Pink Picardy is good. 
The pink color section is loaded with great glads. Variation, Pink Paragon and Pink 
Radiance ask no favor of growing conditions, and their long spikes please the florists. 
Ethel Cave Cole and Criterion are not far behind. Plenty of competition will come from 
Susannah, Chantilly, Bengasi, Pink Charm and Yankee Lass. Lady Luck, a sport of Pic- 
ardy will certainly be one of the top light pinks. Lady Boo is fine. Connecticut Yankee 
has been fine here for three years. Cover Girl will please the size fan. 
Reliance Gardens entries were made at several 1946 shows, almost entirely as com- 
mercial displays, and seedling entries. The winning of displays was consisint. The Ameri- 
can Home seedling winner, and Champion of the Wis. Seedling and N. I. show, and the 
largest floret at the Garfield Park show, the yellow purchased from Mr. Fred Beardmore 
will be introduced in the fall of 1947. Remember the seedling number 42-06. You will 
hear about this one. 
