PREFERRED GLADIOLUS VARIETIES AS SELECTED BY GLADIOLUS EXPERTS 
We are attempting to make our cataiog a source of reliable information — to in- 
clude as far as we possibly can, such data as will aid the Gladiolus buyer to select those 
varieties most apt to produce fine spikes in his locality. FIRST, we include in our listings 
only those varieties which we know by experience are capable of fine spikes as we 
grow them at Lebanon, and SECOND, to give you our honest opinion as to those of this 
long list that seemed outstanding. 
Even with our prolific varietal testing, there are many introductions that we have 
thus far faiied to grow — some that have proven of exceptional worth in the experienced 
hands of expert growers in other sections. For this reason, this year we are publishing 
for you, preference lists of some of the outstanding growers and judges of super glads, 
located in the varied sections where we could find qualified judges to furnish this data. 
These lists have not been edited by us, and were prepared by each as his honest and 
candid opinion of the varieties as he has seen and grown them in his area. It was our 
thought that the novice in the great game of growing glads, bewildered by the many 
hundreds of varieties offered by the various catalogers, and at a loss to know just what 
to order, might find a preference list as selected by some authority from his own section, 
whose choices, if planted by him, would produce much better than mediocre flowers. 
~- To the advanced fan we know that the lists wiil prove of keen interest, and the 
presentation of a dozen of these for camparitive study from almost every important 
area, where glads are deemed an essential flower for garden and home, will provide, 
we think, some interesting hours for many of our readers. The omission of Florida, Ten- 
nessee, and other states of the central and eastern southland, was not our intention. 
We have a list of customers in these states who have more than speaking acquaintance 
with Gladiolus Varieties. But in these states, whether from shyness or simply lack of 
time, we failed to secure from our correspondents the data we wanted to have for you. 
We, of course, have every confidence in the qualifications of those who have pro- 
vided these lists for us and for you. You will find in them a number of kinds that we are 
not cataloging. In most cases we are growing them, but either in too small quantity to 
list, or in some cases, as yet as grown by us they have not fully convinced us of their 
value. Most of them we can furnish on request at the prices being quoted this year by 
the introducer. 
It is interesting to note how universal are the choices in these lists of some varieties 
as “Leading Lady” which have had country wide distribution. Proof positive that Glads 
are the most adaptable of all flower species grown in the garden. Whether Canada 
or the deep South, the Central Plains states, or the Atlantic and Pacific coasts — they 
thrive, they bloom, and constantly make new garden glad fans. 
The list of contributors to this new feature of our catalog: 
C. D. Fortnam — Glads for Show Competition 
Al Amsler — Glads for lowa and North Central States 
W. S. Andrews — Glads for Maine and Northern New England 
Paul V. Baker — Glads for Oregon and ihe Northwest 
Alfons Bazdorf — Glads for Metropolitan New York Section 
Jess O. Boyer — Glads for Washington 
Dr. Chas. M. Evans — Glads for Southern California 
N. H. Lines — Glads for Idaho and the Mountain States 
Tom Manley — Glads for Ohio, Pennsyivania, West Virginia 
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Morrow — Glads for Oklahoma 
W. J. Raison — Glads for Alberta, Canada 
W. W. Woods — Glads for Ohio 
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