
peu rérvraugement of Kose Charm 
of 90. White Christmas shared top honors 
with White Challenge and Robert’s 261-2 at 
Michigan State College Trial Grounds with 
a score of 85. It won numerous other 
awards. We predict many future winnings. 
We have had nearly a score of requests 
from other growers to co-introduce this re- 
splendent white. But our stock is not large 
and so in order to stick to our modest in- 
troductory price previously announced we 
alone are listing White Christmas. 
PRICE 
$2 each any size; 12 for $20.00 
1 large, 1 medium, 1 small, 3 bulblets $6.00 
No bulblets except in the collection. 

C u soon, 
Your?, 
Wendell Heaton 
P. S. Merry White Christmas 
Your best White Christmas fan 
P.P.S. I play a record about White Christmas 
about every day on phonograph and think of you 
and yours. 
“White Christmas is, as you would say, a honey. 
A very heavy ruffled white, long flowerhead with 
many open, on a tall straight stiff stem. In my 
opinion it will go places. Beauty’s Blush is also 
a very tall healthy grower and a very good var- 
iety.”,-—James Marsh, N. Y. 
ROSE CHARM (Fischer) 
Lavender and Gold X (Maid of Orleans x 
Picardy) (5-43) 
Rose Charm is submitted to the gladiolus 
world as an early rose cutflower. It has 
always been among the first half dozen to 
bloom and has twice led the season’s parade. 
This year only Early Gold and Gratitude 
preceded it. Rose Charm has earliness, 
plant vigor, height, rapid propagation, and a 
beautiful color, which are inherited mostly 
from Queen of Bremen. Lavender and Gold 
is Queen of Bremen X (Sweetheart x Rose- 
marie Pfitzer). Rose Charm is fully as pro- 
lific as its stalwart lavender grandparent, 
each bulb producing a handful of rather 
small bulblets which grow readily. But un- 
like Queen of Bremen it does not crook. Be- 
cause its long tapering flower head and long 
slender stem make it unusually apt for bas- 
ket work, we planned to name this new in- 
troduction “Basket Rose” but we were 
denied the use of this name. From large 
bulbs the plant attains the height of about 
four feet. Rose Charm compares with the 
well known Margaret Fulton for size, open- 
ing 5 to 6 414” florets. The color is a par- 
ticularly pleasing shade of clear, crystalline 
rose with a large, dramatic cream throat and 
