GUIDEBOOK FOR 1948 
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500 STRATHNAVER (Peattie) (our ’47 
import release) M. This is the most 
sensational dead white gladiolus we have 
ever seen. Can easily be grown without 
expert care 66 inches tall, 7 inch florets, 
9-11 wide open, pure, hard, glistening 
white from No. 3 medium bulbs. Power- 
ful, straight, self supporting spikes. This 
is not only the best white we have seen, 
by a wide margin, but we are also inclined 
to believe it is the world’s most out- 
standing gladiolus of any color, bar none. 
We watch the white introductions around 
the world very closely and we aim to list 
the best of them in our Guidebook, at as 
early a date as possible, in order that our 
customers may be among the first to have 
them. That is why we do not stop listing 
more white varieties now that we have 
listed Strathnaver. This variety is only 
a medium propagator though bulblets, 
once obtained, grow well and there is 
little hope, for years to come, that all of 
us will have all the Strathnaver we want. 
Meanwhile, some of the newer ones will 
pass it in propagation, may be almost 
as good, or coupled with good propaga- 
tion turn out to be considered a better 
white. Time will tell. Spikes from large 
bulbs carry 21-28 buds. Our seed crosses 
on Strathnaver form the largest pods we 
have ever seen, only those on Grand 
Opera approaching them. 
Grand Champion in South Australia just 
before the war. In ’45 best white in two 
Tasmanian shows and several in New 
Zealand. In ’46 a spike from a No. 3 
bulb meeting the above dimensions was 
Recent Introduction Section Chamrion 
also Reserve Champion of show, Mich. 
state. In ’47 two more champion whites 
in Tasmania, firsts at Metropolitan and 
Tri-State, ‘‘Largest Floret’’ at So. Minn. 
and Reserve Champion at St. Elmwood 
(Winnipeg), this spike also grown from a 
medium bulb and we carry an illustration. 
Each L $5.00 M $4.00 S $2.50 Blts .50 
(10, $4.00) (100, $30.00). 

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“I cannot praise Strathnaver too highly. ] 
the best of the more than 50 new kinds I tried out this season. 
Lee M. Fairchild, N. Y. 
“My son bought Strathnaver and Mid-America from you 
last spring and in my 20 years of growing glads I never saw 
anything to approach them.” Christopher James, N. eel ot 
“Strathnaver is everything Herb Evans states in his 1947 
catalog.” G. Griffiths, Hon. Sec., Tasmania Glad. Soc. 
“I purchased a medium bulb of Strathnaver from you. It 
bloomed in time for the St. Elmwood (Winnipeg) show. It 
won first in Sec. 1, snapshot enclosed (here reproduced.) It 
had 22 buds, 27” flowerhead, 8 open, 7 inches “‘as is 
diameter, the whitest glad I have ever seen and attachment 
was very good.”’ J. H. Pottage, Man. 
“Being my first show (Wis.) and travelling over 300 miles, 
I did oe ee pipes If I did I would have taken the 
works with my Strathnaver that I should have brought. 
E. F. McQuade, Wis. 
“Guess I will have to sell my body to some Medical College 
so I can get some Strathnaver, Mrs. White and the new 12 
inch variety.”” R. R. Kellish, Fla. 
“Just received word from my old friend, William Harris, 
that Strathnaver was an exceptionally fine glad in every 
respect. For 16 years I have found that when William 
Harris says a glad is good, it is good.”” A.J. D. Lake, Ont. 
“When I saw Strathnaver at the Ann Arbor show (Mich. 
state) last year I made up my mind I’d have it even if I had 
to mortgage my law library. Enclosed find Order.”’ A. L. 
Konczal, Ohio. 
“Of the new ones—Strathnaver the most astonishing.’” 
Paul V. Baker, Oregon. 
300 TUNIA’S SNOWBALL (Both) (our ’47 
import release) E. Very early, 60-65 
days. Extravagantly beautiful, well ruf- 
led, spotless pure white. A superb little 
glad but a poor propagator. Award of 
Merit, Ohio Society. 
Each L (3 blts with each L) $1.00. 
400 VREDE (Peace) (K & M) (our ’48 
import release) M. A Silentium seedling. 
A very pure white color, buds as well. 
41% inches and larger, slightly ruffled and 
the uniformity of well placed and spaced 
florets makes a group of them a sight to 
behold. .The stem is strong and wiry. 
The number open, 8-10. A very healthy 
grower and a good propagator. We con- 
sider that it outpoints Myrna in color, 
spacing and health. The spikes have an 
arresting elegance. We credit this variety 
with good show prospects and a fine cut 
flower future. Excellent blooms from 
small bulbs. 
Each M $2.00 S $1.50. 
CREAM —06 Series 
507 CORONA (Palmer ’40) M. The classifi- 
cation committee is still kicking this 
variety around. We declare it to be 
primarily a cream base with too little 
rose cast to consider calling it rose or 
light pink. But it does have conspicuous 
marking, not in the throat but in a rose 
picotee edge that varies in intensity under 
different growing conditions. Regardless 
of what color you call it, Corona is one of 
Pages most outstanding all-purpose 
glads. 
L .10 Blts (100, .30). 
406 JOE STALIN (Both) (our ’47 import 
release) LM. We did not name it and it 
is not red. One of the tallest glads, over 
6 feet not uncommon and one of the long- 
est flowerheads, 33-40 inches. Can hold 
12 open, 4% inches and larger florets, 
perfectly round, clean cream, deepening 
to yellow in the throat. Has already 
entered the ‘“‘grand champion”’ columns 
and won several awards for “longest 
flowerhead.’’ Propagation has proved pro- 
lific beyond our imagination so that these 
prices, advertised some months ago, seem 
higher than necessary and we will over- 
count accordingly on medium and small 
sizes. 
L $2.00 M $2.00 S $2.00 Bits .25 (100, 
$12.00) (1000, $75.00). 
