1949 Descriptive List 
which sometimes reach 7”’ in diameter. Has 
up to 21 buds on a 30” head. Grows 5 feet 
or more tall. A very distinctive and unusual 
variety. Suggestive of the Orient as we picture 
if. 
Cleo (Youmans) (441) (48) A singularly 
beautiful light pink shading to a 
peach red feather on cream ground. This is 
not a harsh bold blotch as some varieties have 
but rather the main color seems to gradually 
shade or blend into a soft blotch. Nicely 
ruffled. Opens 8-10 and sometimes more 5” 
blooms with a total of 16-20 buds. A tall 
straight grower and blooms always well 
placed. Good substance and attachment. 
Satisfactory propagator. This variety is a 
wonderful exhibition sort and should be very 
popular as a commercial cut flower. | liked it 
the first time | saw it at Binghamton and this 
year it was wonderfully fine in my garden. | 
think it should be in any list of best 25 com- 
mercial varieties and leaves very little to be 
desired on the show table. This past season 
it has won a number of prizes including grand 
championships, winning over such varieties as 
Connecticut Yankee. You can’t go wrong on 
this variety. 

Color Marvel (Kruger) (390) (46) 
nnn riane © (EY) Color isa beqau- 
tiful blending of shades from yellow to bronze. 
Opens 5-6 medium size blooms. Nice for the 
home garden but doesn’t open too well when 
cut. 
Concord (Kuhn) (470) (47) (Early) Large 
ie! clowing royal purple. with a 
deeper shade in the throat, but a little dif- 
ferent from other purples. Opens 6 with a 
total of 18 buds. Strong straight grower reach- 
ing 41% feet and over. Good propagator and 
free easy grower from all sizes and bulblets. 
Connecticut Yankee (chenetsky) 
ohn mci eoman comia (44:1. (44) 
(Mid-season) Beautiful clean light pink with 
reddish throat blotch. Opens up to 8 with 
several more showing color. Tall strong 
grower, one that is becoming more popular 
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every year both for show purposes and cut 
flowers. 
Connie G (Woods) (506) (48) (arly 
mid-season) Here is a variety 
that has taken the gladiolus world by storm 
this past season. An entrancingly beautiful 
clear cream. Heavily ruffled and fluted with 
the most unusual heavy substance and ex- 
quisite form. The lip is yellow which sets off 
the cream in fine style. Grows about 41% to 5 
feet tall with a strong straight stem. Opens 
8-10 with most of the rest of them showing 
color with a total of 20 or more buds. Connie 
G was one of the two or three topnotch 
varieties of last season’s introductions. | had a 
basket of it at Binghamton largely grown from 
small and medium bulbs where the public 
went for it in a big way. And a spike | saw 
at Peekskill was simply wonderful. This is one 
of the “‘hottest’’ varieties of the season. Will 
be in tremendous demand as soon as stock is 
available. | bought half the original stock and 
the bulblets have done very well. Can furnish 
any reasonable amount of bulblet grown bulbs. 
But due to the tremendous demand there is 
going to be for this variety we cannot sell 
bulblets this year. Total stock is not large. 
This can be had only from Dr. Graff and myself. 
Cotillion (Butt) (542) (48) (Mid-season) 
— Deep pink with a creamy yellow 
throat. A very good color tho not so unusual 
as some. But it makes tall growth and opens 
up to 10 easily, with the placement always 
good and with long flower heads containing 
18-20 buds. A spike is a bouquet in itself and 
a dozen of them is a whole armful. This looks 
like a valuable coming exhibition and com- 
mercial variety. | liked it very much in my 
garden this past season. 
Coventry (Glass) (511) (47) (Early mid- 
season) Creamy yellow with 
a modified orange blotch. Opens 7-8 or more 
with several showing color. Very nice early 
variety but does not stand extreme hot weather 
so well. Sister seedling of Sparks with softer 
coloring and different form. 

“Just a note to tell you about my glads, especially PALISADES, which was very beautiful 
and very unusual. It grew 6 ff. 4 in. and had a 33” flower head. The first flowers that bloomed 
were 8” and nearly all flowers were double.” 
—Marie Terhune, Oregon. 
