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LITTLE SWEETHEART 
(Fischer) (Sweetheart X Myrna) (73-42) 
Little Sweetheart is well named, for it is just that. The three and one-fourth inch 
Pyenoueht your florets charmingly poised on fine wiry stems are simply exquisite. Color is a delicate pink 
White Christmas blending to a large snowy throat. Waxy texture and an airy ruffling complete a truly 
Josie Veer awes) he ethereal ensemble. For table decorations and wedding bouquets it is unsurpassed. Plant 
oabhad MEIC wad height is about 36 inches. Flowerheads bend forward slightly. Fine grower and propagator. 
really a beauty.” PRICE 
eae Hawk- $2.00 each any size; 12 for $20.00 1 large, 1 medium, 1 small, 5 bulblets $6 00 
MR. WEALE LIKES OUR ORIGINATIONS acclaimed as one of the most beautiful varieties in 
“To sum up, I would say you have-a wonderful existence. The form, substance and ruffling are 
variety in ‘White Christmas’. When this gets to superb. I have an individual floret in the re- 
the shows in the future I believe it will be widely frigerator now that looks more like an orchid 
r than a glad—it would make a beautiful corsage. 
I am grateful indeed for the opportunity to have 
grown this most beautiful glad, Gleam has about 
the most beautiful ruffling I have seen. Arethusa 
surely imparts its ruffling to its seedlings. Ruf- 
fiing is one of my ideals in breeding, it adds so 
much to the beauty of a flower. Gratitude did 
well too—one of the tallest in the garden; such 
nice, tall, stretchy spikes.’—Kenneth M. Weale, 
Mass. 
Little Sweetheart 
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Left: A section of our 1947 fields. Note 
the luxurious growth; this in spite of the 
dry weather. we experienced. 

