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NATIONAL CONFERENCE AND 
TWO DAY SHORT COURSE 
The fifth National Conference conducted 
by the New England and affiliated societies 
will be held at Hotel Schroeder, headquarters, 
Milwaukee, Wis., Saturday and Sunday, 
February 21, 22,1948. Lectures, discussions, 
color slides, banquet, bulb auction, etc. The 
lectures will be on bulb and plant diseases, 
insecticides, fertilizers, weed control, tools, 
trial grounds, judging, etc., by state and 
federal horticulturists, entomologists and 
pathologists. 
THE OHIO ANNUAL EXHIBITION, 1948 
The Ohio state show, again at the wonder- 
ful Higbee Co. Auditorium on Cleveland’s 
Public Square. Under same roof the R. R. 
Terminal Tower, the Cleveland Hotel and 
the Terminal Garage (largest in the world). 
Monday and Tuesday, August 30 and 31, 
1948. No other shows scheduled to interfere 
with your coming. The world’s quality show. 

THE CHAGRIN FALLS (Ohio) SHOW 
Conducted by the Chagrin Valley Men’s 
Garden Club. At High School Gymnasium, 
Chagrin Falls, Ohio, on State Route 422 
about 20 miles east of downtown Cleveland. 
Saturday and Sunday, September 4-5, 1948. 
THE OHIO RECENT INTRODUCTION 
AND SEEDLING SHOW 
Sunday, September 12, 1948, at our farm, 
State Route 91, Solon, Ohio, Beyond doubt 
the best attendance of any of the state society 
recent introduction and _ seedling shows. 
(Some states have several). R. I. and Seed- 
lings are brought for scoring for possible 
Awards of Merit. Here we are often able 
to exhibit newly imported varieties a year or 
two before their appearance in U. S. catalogs 
and shows. We have an efficient traffic 
manager, lots of room, boating and cafeteria. 
Visitors from many states. 
GLADIOLUS SEED 
After eight years of offering quality seed 
from thoroughbred pedigrees we have finally 
failed our customers. Last year we reported 
that our luck could not last forever. And it 
didn’t. As usual, the same three of us pa- 
tiently set crosses for two weeks and more 
THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
with good success. The pod spikes were 
each tied with 3 rubber band minimum to 6 
foot stainless steel stakes to protect against 
heavy winds. But this time we had the only 
hail storm in 20 years to do any substantial 
damage. It not only tore off practically all 
the seed spikes but also several thousand 
spikes with buds in color in our R. I.-seedling- 
import field, which spikes would have been 
timed about right for our R. I.-seedling show. 
Out of 90 crosses (all many times duplicated), 
only three weathered the storm. 
We got busy again and made 65 crosses 
(again many times duplicated) but the season 
was too late to properly mature the seeds. 
We got pretty good looking pods, but mostly 
without salable seeds, far too few of a cross 
to warrant listing. 
COLOR AND SIZE CLASSIFICATION 
The color separations as used by the New 
England Gladiolus Society, coupled with 
reference to the ‘‘Fischer’’ Color Chart and 
the size and color classification of a 1944 
national gladiolus conference adopted by the 
North American Gladiolus Council in 1946 
and now used by most of the 40 or more 
gladiolus societies in the U. S. merit your 
attention. We brief them here because it 
will enable you to understand our show and 
symposium tabulations and enable you to 
make judicious use of our method of catalog- 
ing varieties in their own color groups where 
the variety descriptions and prices may be 
readily compared. Our catalogs for a full 
twenty years have offered their varieties by 
color groups. This brief will also give you 
a rather complete understanding of any 
gladiolus show you may visit in the U. S. 
Over the years we have participated in the 
development of these systems and with 
standards for scoring, five years while execu- 
tive chairman of the American Gladiolus 
Society, five more as executive chairman of 
the Ohio State Gladiolus Society and this is 
our fifth year on the National Classification 
Committee. 
SIZES 
Giant 500 series 51% inches and up 
Large 400 series 4144 to5\% 
Medium 300series above 3144 to4% 
Small 200 series 21% through 3144 
Miniature 100 series under 24% 
_ Thus the first digit of the 3 digit number 
indicates the size range of the floret of the 
gladiolus in question 
