Memoir (441) (Mid-season) Blush cream or very light pink with a beautiful dis- 
_———---—  tinctive large crimson blotch. Very attractive coloring: Opens os wits 
total of 16 buds. Plant is usually only medium height and yet the color is so attractive that 
it stands out in any company. 
Minstrel (566) (Mid-season) A huge lavender pink sometimes flecked darker. 
“This is the largest lavender I know of. Sometimes it doesn’t get too tall 
but the head is long and this past year has been magnificent with me. It is a gorgeous variety 
that everyone should have. Probably as an all around cut flower it is not so valuable as 
Elizabeth The Queen. But it is so large and beautiful and striking that everyone should 
have it. Very fine for breeding. 
Patrol (316) (Mid-season) Clear lively apricot with yellow throat. Opens 10 or 
ee ~©6' ore with the remaining 8 showing color. Tall grower with long flower head. 
Stands hot weather well. When well grown one of the finest for exhibition. This hasn’t 
propagated too fast in the past but is coming along good now. When stock is available I 
predict it will be one of the most popular varieties. The color is grand. 
Picard (530) (Mid-season) Clear soft salmon with flesh throat and small rose 
sicaracy feather. Opens 7-8 large well placed blooms on a big husky plant. Picardy 
has been on the market about as long as any of the present day varieties and is still going 
strong. It is the most popular and most valuable variety ever produced. It has made the 
Florida gladiolus industry and has had a greater influence on the gladiolus industry as a 
whole than any variety ever grown. 
In case any new grower doesn’t know what Picardy is it is the salmon pink which 
you see so much of in the florist shops. 
(470) (Mid-season) Pure deep glistening purple shading to a lighter 
Rangoon throat. Opens 8 heavily ruffled well placed blooms at a time. Tho the 
plant is a rather short grower and not too fast a propagator and so is not designed for com- 
mercial use I consider 1t the most beautiful purple I have ever seen and one that the lover 
of purples will surely want. 
Sahara (490) (Late Mid-season) Light russet with soft cream blotch, lightly pep- 
—————-—.  pered darker, with scarlet penciling. Opens up to 10 well placed blooms on 
a tall straight spike. Will not wilt in the hottest sun. A nice old smoky in the lighter shades. 
(400) (Mid-season) <A very beautiful ruffled white with a cream 
Snowbank throat. One of the whitest whites I know of and one of the best 
for commercial use. Have had a lot of fine reports from cut flower growers on this variety. 
Most of the whites have a rather creamy tinge but this is a pure snow white which is set 
off nicely by the small creamy throat. And it also has green deep in the throat which im- 
proves any white variety. 
& otlight (412) (Early Mid-season) Beautiful deep golden yellow with a small 
a flaming blotch, making an unusually attractive color combination. 
Blooms are slightly waved and nicely placed on a tall straight slender willowy spike. 6—7 
Spotlight is fast becoming the most popular commercial yellow. In the Chicago market 
this past season it sold for from 75c to $1.00 a dozen more than any other variety. I have 
shipped it to a number of large markets where they all called for more. Tho not a clear 
yellow it is a very bright showy color and by far the best cut flower yellow. For home use 
it is one you certainly want if you like yellow at all. 
S un Gold (312) (Early) Clear deep golden yellow with no markings whatever. 
p Medium height plant with 5-6 plain petaled always well placed 
blooms open. Blooms out in a short time, thus with its other good qualities making a first class 
early commercial. Also good for the home garden. 
Tarawa (336) (Mid-season) Very beautiful brilliant but soft scarlet shading to a 
Soot cones somewhat darker rich velvety blotch on which are two broad cream pencil 
marks. Nicely waved and ruffled. Opens 10-12 nicely placed blooms on a long head. But 
sometimes the stem below the head is rather short. This is the most beautiful scarlet I have 
ever seen and is one that every home gardener will want and also one of the very best for 
exhibition. The picture on page 10 is from a No. 5 bulb. A large bulb will give a corre- 
spondingly better spike. 


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