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Good propagator. Hope to have enough this 
year to get it to the shows where it will make 
a name for itself. 
Lancaster (470)(44) Mid-season. Clear 
dark purple with 8-12 lightly 
waved blooms open on a tall straight spike. 
Requires good conditions to get the real long 
heads that it is capable of. But when well 
grown no other purple can touch it for ex- 
hibition. The growers who used it in discrim- 
inating markets say that it is going over fine. 
Lantana (420) (43) Early. Orange 
—— shading thru orange salmon to 
a large golden throat. A beautiful distinctive 
bright vivid color. Opens 7-9 blooms on a 
long head. Its one fault is that the stem is in- 
clined to be a little short. However it is a 
fine cut flower variety which is very popular 
in our flower shop. More of them should be 
grown. 
Lidice (406) (43) Late mid-season. 
= a - «Beautiful clear ruffled” cream. 
Opens 6-8 blooms on a tall straight stem. One 
of the best cream varieties. But for some reason 
it is not well enough known yet. Am sure you 
will like it. 
Magnolia (440) (40) Mid-season. Light 
——— soft creamy rose. A beautiful 
clear chaste color tho it sometimes flecks a 
little. 6-8 large round recurved blooms on a 
tall spike. Have had many fine reports on this. 
A number of growers say it is their best pink. 
Malta (562) (40) Mid-season. A huge 
~——_ begonia rose. Sister seedling of 
Corona and much like it except in color. Opens 
6-7 wide open blooms. The lower floret is 
often rather loose but when cut and opened 
inside it makes a wonderfully fine big head of 
bloom. Have had good reports on it from cut 
flower growers. 
Marimba (416) (42) Mid-season. Light 
~~ buff pink with a small feather 
in the throat. Opens up 8 or more well placed 
blooms. In the field one of the tallest and 
strongest varieties grown and with an extra 
long head. Color is not quite so clear as we 
like yet have had a lot of fine reports on it 
from both cut flower growers and home 
gardeners. 
Champlain View Gardens 
Maytime (430) (36) Early mid-season. 
—— ———__ Beautiful light creamy salmon 
with creamy throat, like a somewhat smaller 
Picardy but two or three weeks earlier. Many 
growers say they grow it as nice as Picardy. 
This variety went bad some years ago and | 
got out of it. But this year have some nice clean 
stock and can furnish medium and small sizes 
especially, haven’t many large ones. Have 
had lots of calls for this from cut flower growers 
the past few years. 
Memoir (441) (45) Mid-season. Creamy 
white blushed a very light pink 
with a wonderfully beautiful and distinct large 
crimson blotch which makes a very attractive 
color effect. Opens 5 with a total of 16 buds. 
Plants of only medium height but the color is so 
distinct and unusual that it stands out anywhere 
and is admired by everyone. 
Minstrel (566) (44) Mid-season. Huge 
lavender, sometimes flecked 
darker. This is the largest lavender in exist- 
ence. It has a long head but under adverse 
conditions the stem is not too long. But when 
well grown it is wonderfully fine. It is a simply 
gorgeous variety that everyone should grow. 
Will not be so popular as a cut flower as 
Elizabeth The Queen and yet it is one that 
the public would like if the florists would 
stock it. It is so large and striking that | know 
of no other lavender that can compare with it 
for showiness. A good variety for breeding. 
Patrol (16 (46) Mid-season. Beautiful 
clear apricot with yellow throat. 
Opens 10 or more with the remaining 8 show- 
ing color. Tall strong grower with long flower 
heads. Stands hot weather well. This is one 
of the very finest exhibition varieties | know of 
and when stock is more plentiful it will be one 
of the most popular. The color is gorgeous. 
Picardy (530) (31) Mid-season. Clear 
~~~ soft salmon with flesh throat and 
small rose feather. Opens 7-8 large well 
placed blooms on a big husky plant. If you 
don’t know what Picardy is it is the salmon 
pink that every florist in the country has. You 
see it everywhere in flower shops. It is the 
most valuable variety ever produced not only 
for cut flowers but for breeding. 
In Florida and some places where they have 
