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KODACHROME SLIDES 
Offering the rental of 104 2”x2” kodachrome 
slides and a hand viewer for only $3.00. You may 
keep the set two days and then it must be return- 
ed. Orders filled in rotation. Garden Clubs and 
Gladiolus Societies may obtain the set by appoint- 
ment for a certain date for $5.00. Please return 
the set promptly. 
Lecture furnished with the set. The set contains 
9 slides of Cherry Blossom time in Washington, 
D. C., view of New York City from Empire State 
Bldg., 3 slides of Noweta Gardens’ vases, 7 shots 
of White Christmas, 3 of Wedgwood, view from 
plane, 6 of Noweta Gardens’ seedlings. Orange 
Gold, 19 scenes, 3 of Poet’s Dream, a basket of 
Leading Lady, clematis, Rose O’Day, lythrum 
and Regal lilies, Hopa Crab, rhododendron, Misty 
Dawn, Testacium lilies, 2 slides of Little Sweet- 
heart, Red bud, 2 views of Rose Charm, dahlia 
(Clara Hook), Snow Flurry, 2 views of Better 
Times, 2 mixed baskets of glads, basket of Rose 
O’Day, Orange Gold and Sunlight, Spic and Span, 
2 florets of Margaret Beaton, 2 pictures of Abu 
Hassan, Red Plush, Wings of Song, Elizabeth the 
Queen, a row of Stoplight. Canterbury bells 
bergamont, zinnias and annual phlox, a hard 
maple tree in blossoms, Fischer’s lilac hedge, 
catalpa, Fischer’s flower bed, Carl F. and a friend 
cutting a giant red cedar in Oregon, hawthorn, 
single peonies, Shirely poppies, pansies, peonies, 
Chamouny, butterfly on dahlia, 2 florets of Lead- 
ing Lady, cutting flowers for market, Surfside, 
Burma, Margaret Beaton, Vulcan, Phantom Beau- 
ty, Red Charm, Susquehanna, White Gold, bee on 
dahlia, baskets of Better Times, Abu Hassan and 
Poet’s Dream, oak catkins, Magnolia Soulan- 
geana, and one of yours truly, Car] Fischer. Some 
very pleasant entertainment is promised, or your 
money back! 
RANDOM FIELD NOTES 
Arethusa, Beauty’s Blush, Big Top, Birch Red, 
Daisy Mae, Gleam, Gratitude, Heavenly White, 
Invictus, Lady Jane, Leading Lady, Legend, Poet’s 
Dream, Red Plush, Rose Charm, Rose O’Day, Spot- 
light, Starlet, Stoplight, Trocadero, White Christ- 
mas, White Gold, and Wedgwood are among my 
most vigorous growers. 
Varieties that have proved to be good breeders 
in the past are: Arethusa, Black Diamond, Dawn 
Glow, Elizabeth the Queen, Gloaming, Gratitude, 
Lavender and Gold, Legend, Memory of Hinden- 
berg, Poet’s Dream, Red Charm, Rose O’Day, 
Ruffled Beauty and White Christmas. 
From experience I believe that the following 
should make good breeders: Beauty’s’ Blush, 
Burma, Daisy Mae, Gleam, Mt. Index, Orange 
Gold, Spotlight, Spic and Span, Starlet, Surfside, 
Trocadero, Venida and Wedgwood. 
In looking up the parentages of glads listed in 
my descriptive price list, I was mueh impressed 
with the preponderance of Picardy blood in our 
gladiolus lineage. 
Our season’s blooming started out in the fol- 
lowing order: Early Gold, Gratitude, Rose Charm, 
Donella, Babs, Radiance, Gerry, Fay, Arethusa, 
Brightside, Lavender and Gold, General Mac- 
Arthur, Goldstaub, June Day, Annamae, Snow 
Princess and Gleam. From here on we were too 
much entailed with other work to make notations. 
We hope to have a more complete report as to 
the relative blooming dates of early varieties next 
year. 
Artistic arrangements should be stressed more 
and more at our shows and milk bottles less and 
less. We are still in the milk bottle stage in floral 
arrangement! 
“T will see Wedgwood in my dreams——if I had 
Wedgwood I would have it in my living room 
all the time.’’—Garden remarks of The Apostle of 
Beauty, Vermont. 
“We tried out about twenty new varieties this 
year but were really impressed with three, Beau- 
ty’s Blush, Spic and Span, and Birch Red.”— 
Golden West Glad Growers, Calif. 
WEDGWOOD 

