Corona (560) (Mid-season) Creamy white shading to a cream throat with a rose 
_picotee edge on all petals, which gives it a very beautiful and distinctive 
appearance. This pink edge varies a good deal in shade and width, sometimes being very 
much heavier than at others. A wonderful commercial variety and one for the home garden 
and for the exhibition grower also. Opens 6 or more very large wide open blooms on a tall 
husky plant. You can cut a stem of this without reaching to the ground to get it. One of the 
easiest to cut as the leaves do not hug the stem so tightly as some. A wonderful variety. 
Glamis (530) (Mid-season) Very beautiful clear salmon rose with cream lip. Has 
é a charm all its own. Opens 6 large wide open beautifully ruffled and needle- 
port pms on a plant 4 feet or more tall. One of the finest for cut flower purposes and for 
ouse decoration. 
b4 (416) (Mid-season) A new and distinctive shade of light orange 
Grenadier buff. Makes a grand spike with 7-10 blooms open. Tall Pawine 
variety. One of the best in this shade. 
Kestrel (420) (Mid-season) Light salmon orange with a creamy throat which is 
—_—— ————— bordered by a darker orange. Unique color, different from all other oranges. 
Opens 8-10 out of a total of 20 buds on a tall straight spike. One of the coming cut flower 
oranges. 
4 (570) (Very early) Clear deep reddish purple with a silver line on 
King Lear all the petals. Opens 5-6 huge beautifully ruffled blooms on a tall 
straght willowy stem. This is the largest purple I know of and as beautiful as any. Does not 
open too well in water tho I have shipped many in tight bud to the large markets where 
they called for more. 
Ladrone (433) (Medium late) Color is somewhat like Beacon but larger, showier 
and a stronger grower making a robust plant and spike. Technically it 
is a light Rose Doree shading to scarlet petal tips, with a large yellow blotch. Opens 8 
with 8 more showing color and sometimes reaches 5 feet in height, tho it doesn’t usually 
get that tall with me. Had the highest rating at the Canadian Test Gardens for two years. 
Many visitors to my garden liked it very much. Heavy propagator. 
(470) (Mid-season) Clear dark purple with 8-12 lightly ruffled blooms 
Lancaster open on a tall straight spike. When well grown I know of no other 
purple that can equal it on the show bench. A large cut flower grower tells me it is becom- 
ing very popular with the florists also. 
(420) (Early) Orange shading thru orange salmon to a golden throat. 
Lantana Beautiful distinctive bright eed color. nner 7-9 well placed blooms, 
making a very large head, but the stem is sometimes rather short. A fine cut flower variety 
where your florist can use a color of this sort. We use many of them in our flower shop. 
There is nothing else like it. 
Lidice (406) (Late Mid-season) Beautiful clear ruffled cream. Opens 6—8 blooms 
eee §@6onn_ a tall straight stem. One of the best clear creams. 
4 (460) (Mid-season) Light soft creamy rose. A beautiful clear chaste 
Magnolia color, tho sometimes it flecks a little. Opens 6-8 large round recurved 
blooms on a tall spike. Cut flower growers tell me this is one of the very best pinks. 
Malta (562) (Mid-season) Beautiful begonia rose. Sister seedling of Corona and 
pve oe SS §=much like it except in color. Opens 6-7 huge wide open blooms. Sometimes 
the lower floret is rather loose, but when you cut them and take them in the house they 
last unusually long and open up beautifully. Have had good reports from cut flower growers. 
In one large city the leading florist wouldn’t try Malta at all until one day he was finally 
prevailed upon to take a few dozen for trial. After that he was a steady customer. 
(416) (Mid-season) Light buff sometimes tinged pink with a small 
Marimba feather in the throat. Always opens 8 or more well placed blooms. One 
of the tallest and strongest varieties grown and with an unusually long head. The color 1s 
not quite so clear and refined as some would like yet I consider it a fine variety and one that 
cut flower growers and amateurs alike should have. 

“ASTRID was a beautiful flower and produced a 50” spike, 28’” flower head, 18 buds, 7 
open showing color, with 5” florets.” —Earl Sherrard, III. 
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