Many of you have seen me in my working 
clothes while busy in my glad patch. Those who 
have may find it a bit hard to believe that the 
party pictured in street clothes and the fellow 
who looks more or less like a scare-crow in 
working clothes are one and the same person - 
yet such is the case. I do not feel at all at home 
with my glads unless I feel free to get down on 
my knees whenever I want to do so and therefore 
dress accordingly. 

Jutreduction:. 
The 1946 season is just history now. Like all other seasons, the season just past was marked 
by great variations in climate in different sections of this vast country of ours - some had too much 
rain, and some had nowhere near enough; most of us still hope that, sometime, we may have just 
the kind of season that we would like to have. 
We have been encouraged to believe that science would, before long, devise means for con- 
trolling the weather: probably man has hoped for centuries that some day he would be able to 
shape the climate to suit his requirements, but, to date, we seem to be no nearer to a solution of 
this perennial problem. 
I have devised a plan which would remove a great deal of the hazard due to unregulated 
weather. The plan is a very simple one and | am sure that it would work. Most of our most violent 
changes in weather are at present due to vast columns of arctic cold air descending, unhindered, 
from the north polar regions; stop those and our climate will approach that of the European countries 
bordering upon the north shore of the Mediterranean Sea. All that we need to do is to erect a 
barrier of sufficient height from the Hudson Bay shore of Keewatin in northern Canada across 
Canada to the eastern spurs of the Rocky Mountains in the Northwest Territory of Canada - simple, 
is it not? 
ro) 
Notwithstanding the fact that the summer of 1946 was even drier than the worst drought years 
of the 1930's, the showing of glads at our various state shows was really outstanding. Our glads 
can surely take it! 
There were a number of seedlings in my seedling patch that looked very promising, but it 
will require several years, at least, before they can be properly evaluated. In the meantime, two 
new Scheer introductions are offered this year, Patrician, an outstanding new lavender, and Deborah 
Sampson, a pastel combination of soft pink and buff. Both have won honors at this year’s Boston 
Show of the NEGS and both promise to become very popular when they become better known. 
