Performance of Varieties 
Summer of 1947 
One swallow does not make a summer. Growing a Glad in our fields 
for one year does not prove that it is a world-beater or a bum. We did 
find several of the newer Glads to be very fine and give a fine performance 
in our soil the first season we have grown them. Among those we grew for 
the first time, the following left a good impression on our minds: Beauty’s 
Blush was excellent, and should go on to become a fine commercial as well 
as show variety. A staunch, vigorous grower and stood our extreme heat 
very well. Another grand number is Orange Gold. We had a few large 
bulbs, and a couple of hundred No. 5 bulbs. We cut fine spikes from almost 
every bulb planted. It may be a bit plain, but the color is out-standing, 
and calls to you to ‘Come and cut’ and put in a vase where it opens up in 
grand shape. The few thousand bulblets we had germinated and made bet- 
ter than average growth. Trocadero is another lovely glad, with a carrot- 
color that is very fine for florist use. We planted Spotlight in quantity for 
the first time, and it appears to be a coming commercial variety. In its 
second season with us, Huntress again proved to be a good doer in a tough 
year. The few hundred bulblets we planted after cracking, made mostly 
No. 2 bulbs, and very fine bulbs, too. Daisy Mae (planted very late) was 
a high-light for September blooms, and we are going to stock up on that 
one. Another first-year surprise was Rosy Light from Milton Jack’s garden. 
It seems to be one of the most beautiful of the newer numbers. We are 
buying more. Van Gold was going fine, but burned a little in our 100-degree 
weather. 
Some of the older varieties that stood the heat well and produced ex- 
cellent bulbs were: Magnolia, Ethel Cave Cole, Badger Beauty, Golden 
Teton, Mother Kadel, Marg. Beaton, Blue Beauty, Autumn Gold, Red 
Charm, Kenwood, Birch Red, Rosy Red, Buckeye Bronze, Wings of Song, 
Leading Lady, Miss Wisconsin, Valeria, Elizabeth the Queen and others. 
Purple Supreme, Stoplight, Algonquin, Picardy, and a few others showed 
some disease virus in the bulbs, probably due to our hot dry season. 
We saw Carl Fischer cutting fine blooms from Beauty’s Blush grown 
from No. 6 bulbs, on September 28rd; and that glad really can get a spike 
up there from small bulbs. We hope Wedgewood and White Christmas will 
do just as well. Mr. Fischer tries them a long time before naming them. 
We wish all originators would do as well. We like to try new ones from 
everywhere, however, and expect to keep on maintaining a trial garden. 
We probably will pay $10 per bulb for a few again this year. Hope we get 
young bulbs! 
