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florets are pleasingly arranged on a slender well proportioned spike. Friendship is a color 
marvel, a clear shade of pure pink is enhanced by a large cream blotch. A runaway propagator 
that blooms unusually well from small bulbs. An early bloomer (about 75 days) that can compete 
with varieties of any season.” 
Originator’s description above. | saw this in Carl Fischer's garden and was very greatly 
taken with it. It is one of the freshest and cleanest pinks | ever saw. Except for an occasional 
misplaced floret it is tops in the medium pink class. A simply ecstatic variety exquisite in every 
way and on which you can't go wrong.” 
Any size $2.00 each; 12 for $20.00; 1 large, 1 medium, 1 small and 10 bulblets $6.00. 
Velvet Mantle (Dr. Hoeg x Black Opal) “Velvet Mantle has a cloak of shimmering deep 
~~ red velvet. The rich lustrous sheen commands your instant appreciation of 
this tall robust grower. 6 to 9 round, wide-open, 5” florets are firmly set on long 24” flower 
heads. Not a long distance shipper. Blooms in 85 days. An excellent germinator and propagator 
that makes beautiful high crowned bulbs. An excellent addition to the weak dark-red class.’’ 
Originator’s description above. This looks like a beautiful dark colored garden variety. 
$2.00 each; 12 for $20.00; 1 large, 1 medium, 1 small and 10 bulblets $6.00. 
FROM JERRY POLINSKY 
Sundance (Almey) (Golden Goddess x Orange Sovereign) x (Rose Marie Pfitzer x 
~~ Orange King) 85-90 days. Classification 412. A ruffled self medium yellow 
with no foreign color at all. Opens 8-12 5” blooms right out in the hot sun in the field. Has a 
long head with up to 26 buds. Grows up to 5% feet tall. A strong healthy variety. Good place- 
ment and attachment. Easy opener to the tip. 
| have seen yellows that had real beauty to a higher degree, but sometimes beauty alone 
is not a criterion of all around usefulness. Sundance looks to me like the best all around com- 
mercial and exhibition yellow | have seen. This is not casting any reflections on the other new 
yellows | am introducing this year. They all have a place. But Sundance looks like one the florists 
would go for in a big way. For years the public has been looking for a large clear yellow and 
| believe Sundance is the answer. 
A poor picture of a good spike is shown inside front cover. | am the only one listing 
Sundance this season. 
Price $3.00 each for any size bulb. No bulblets this year. 
FROM ROBERT PRUITT AND SONS 
Fandango Classification 483. This is a novelty. White tinted pink with a smoky blotch 
shading out to scarlet around the edge and two dark reddish lines on the lip. 
5-6 open on a tall slender plant. 
$1.00 each for any size bulb. No bulblets. 
Frosty Classification 483. Medium smoky salmon orange shading to a slight smoky edge and 
———~__ with a fiery blotch. Over the whole flower is a Frosty sheen. It is beautiful and has a 
refined elegance about it that should make a popular cut flower as well as a favorite for the 
garden. Medium height. This is unlike any other variety and | believe you will like it. 
$2.00 each for any size bulb. No bulblets. 

“| have just returned from the Greene County Fair with a ribbon on the BURMA gladiolus 
that | purchased from you this spring. 
“Despite the fact we first had a severe dry spell followed by a very wet spell and now are 
fighting grasshoppers, all the bulbs received from you are showing beautiful blossoms. 
—Mrs. O. W. Lanthorn, Ohio. 
“My glads are the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen.”” —Mrs. Alfred Kozak, Mass. 


