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than they really are. Outer color is a deep 
lavender shading to a cream-white throat. 
Blue dominates in the purple color and it 
meets florist’s favor so well that we seldom 
have many spikes in the field. So closely 
does it resemble an orchid in shape that 
visitors have said: “The only thing that 
looks more like an orchid than that, is an 
orchid.” 
Yellow Glads 
The notes made some years ago when 
Tahlahneka’s first floret opened in our field 
read: “The best yellow we have ever seen.” 
Subsequent performance, as well as opin- 
ions expressed by a number of those who 
have grown it, has not changed our opin- 
ion: It is a medium yellow self-color with 
well-opened florets on a good stem and 
with six or more large florets open at once. 
The name means golden treasure. That’s 
it—good propagator and reliable performer. 
Sunspot, a new Winston Roberts offering, 
was tried out last season and is promising. 
It has good stems, plenty open, medium 
yellow with a sharply contrasting red spot 
on the throat. Slightly buff tints. Spot- 
light is a big yellow with a red spot on the 
lower petals. Dragonette, one of our own, 
may be classed as either pink or yellow. 
Usually it has yellow petals with deep pink 
spots on them and other times the color 
scheme is reversed. It is a very small 
flower and attracts attention. 
Any Other Color Glads 
A number of fine Glads are to be found 
outside the regular color classifications. 
Our own Rollo perhaps should be placed 
in this class. It is a tall growing variety, 
with six or more well opened florets, plenty 
to come, but sometimes not of perfect 
placement. One forgets this, however, in 
the beauty of its purple colored ground with 
a distinctive orange overcast. R. B. is a 
very large flower in a rusty golden brown- 
ish tone in which there are pink and purple 
tints. Winall, rated a blue, has faint purple 
tints, many open and is our choice of the 
so-called blues. We close the list with 
Sahara and if you have struggled through 
this far, you may need its cream-in-coffee 
light brown color. 
Glad Disease 
Disease and death being the natural in- 
heritance of all living things, we never 
could see why some nurserymen and bulb 
growers claim to have “disease-free” stocks. 
Ever since we planted our first bulb we 
have been studying Glad diseases. Have 
experimented with every chemical we have 
ever heard of—and some just on “suspicion” 
that they might work. None of them have 
proved to be 100 per cent effective. 
Last - 
season we tried out the Standard Oil prep- 
aration known as Supergermite and results 
were the best of anything we have ever 
used, percentage of sick bulbs is very low 
and even some bulbs that we thought it 
impossible to “cure” came out of the ground 
last fall clean and bright. It is used at 
the rate of one tablespoon to three gallons 
of water, soak the bulbs for three or more 
hours. We have left bulbs in the solution 
for twelve hours without injury and believe 
the longer soaking is beneficial. If pos- 
sible plant on land that has never produced 
Glads before, disease organisms live over 
for a good many years in the soil. 
Dahlia Tubers | 
No summer garden is complete without 
a few Dahlias to provide -long-season bloom 
and to add to the landscaping effect. We 
grow only a few varieties, but every one 
of them is a reliable performer. Our tubers 
all have live “eyes” when shipped and if 
they do not sprout within a reasonable time 
after planting, send the “duds” back and 
get your money. Unless otherwise noted, 
prices are 45c per tuber. 
Amber Queen, P. P. Two-toned amber- 
apricot. 
Baby Royal. 
ricot. 
Commodore, I. D. A monster flower on 
strong plant. The largest and best golden 
yellow. 
Bobby, P. P. Small ball, rich plum color. 
Champoeg, D. Very large waxy yellow, 
pink tips. 
City of Cleveland, I. D. Medium size 
fiery orange. 
Dreamthorp, Min. 
racotta. 
Eunice, P. P. Base cream, ends lavender. 
Ida Perkins, F. D. Large clean white. 
Jane Cowl, D. Large gold-bronze-buff. 
Jersey Beauty, I. D. Fine standard pink. 
Joe Fettee. Best small white pompon. 
Marjorie Emberson, Min. Pink, fine form. 
Oriental Glory, I. D. Large orange scar- 
let. 
Satan, S. C. Very large fire red. 
Thomas A. Edison, F. D. Large royal 
purple. 
Tommy Keith, P. P. Deep red tipped 
white. 
Tower's Empire, F. D. Very tall, long 
stems, mammoth flowers, gold with amber 
shadings. 
Winnefred. Best red pompon. 
White Cactus Sport. If it has a name 
we do not know it, but the flower is large, 
fully double, a white cactus type. 
Small cactus, pink and ap- 
Orange and light ter- 
