1949 Descriptive List 
Dusty Miller (Elliott) (486) (45) Early 
mid-season) Smoky old 
rose with distinctive cream lines. One of the 
best smokies and very popular. 
Early Rose (Jack) (62) (36) (arly 
mid-season) Distinctive shade 
of rose shading to darker rose on lower petals. 
Really a two toned variety. An old but very 
good commercial and still in demand. 
Ecstasy New introduction. See page 29. 
Eglantine (cheer) (540) (43) (Late 
—.... mid-season) Very large clear 
warm pink blending to a light cream throat. 
Opens 7-8 huge heavily ruffled blooms with 
several more showing color. Can be wonder- 
fully fine but is not a tall grower. 
Elegy (Baerman) (366) (46) (Early) Nice 
—— clear lavender mauve with a cream 
throat. Opens 5-6 always well placed blooms. 
Always straight slender 4 foot stems. Should 
make a good early commercial, at least for 
local use. 
Elizabeth The Queen (White) 
(566) (41) 
(Mid-season) Beautiful clear lavender mauve 
with darker lines in the throat. Opens 7-8 
heavily ruffled blooms with beautiful form. 
This is not only the best commercial lavender 
on the market but has been about the only 
first class lavender at a reasonable price. A 
must have for the home garden and one of the 
most valuable varieties in years for breeding. 
Some wonderfully fine seedlings are coming 
along now with Elizabeth the Queen as one 
of the parents. As one of its parents was a 
buff variety it doesn’t usually transmit its color 
tho it sometimes does. But it does transmit 
beautiful form and other good qualities. Have 
never had enuf to go round. 
Ethel Cave Cole (ave) (440) (41) 
(Early mid-season) 
Pure light pink shading to a creamy throat. 
Very popular cut flower. Opens up to 9-10 
well placed blooms. Not so good as Picardy 
but comes in two weeks or more ahead of that 
variety. Valuable for its earliness. 
“Every bulb | received from you last year was beautiful.”’ 
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Ethel Theresa (Vasaturo) (206) (47) 
pin fomcll informal ruthed 
cream white with wine feather in the throat. 
Opens 5 3” florets, on a 16 bud flower head. 
Very nice for this class. 
Eureka (Fairweather) (500) (48) (Mid- 
“~ season) This is a white sport of 
Picardy with all the good qualities of the 
parent and other white sports but somewhat 
whiter and with better attachment. Where it 
has been grown in quantity the florists pre- 
ferred this to any other white Picardy sport. 
Fabulous (loSalle) (443) (46) (Early 
~ mid-season) Deep pink with a 
large cherry red blotch bordered with light 
cream. Opens 6 5” blooms, on a tall strong 
stem. To me this is one of the best blotched 
varieties. Very reliable as the spikes are all 
alike. Good easy grower and propagator. 
Fine cut flower variety. 
Fair Angel (Hatch) (400) (42) (Early 
(ear | mid-season) =< ream: white 
shading to a deeper cream in the throat. Opens 
8 large round somewhat wavy blooms with 
several more showing color. Not quite so tall 
as we would like, usually 4 feet or a little 
over. But it makes such a nice spike and comes 
in way ahead of Leading Lady that it is a 
valuable cut flower variety. It is getting in- 
creasingly popular. 
Falcon New introduction. See page 29. 
Fandango New _ introduction. See 
page 27. 
Fay (Jack) (460) (45) (Early) Nice ruffled 
~~ pink with cream throat. Opens 7 or 
more well placed blooms. This was especially 
nice with me this past season. 
Filigree (Kuhn) (216) (45) (Mid-season) 
——____ Beautiful small flowered variety. 
Distinct pinkish buff, heavily ruffled and 
lacinated and with pointed petals. Opens 5 
with three more showing color with a total of 
18 buds. Very nice for small arrangements. 
Firebird (Kuhn) (436) (47) (Early) Clear 
— brilliant scarlet: Opens 6-8 with 
a total of 20-24 buds. Plant is about 4% feet 


—Edna Cotton, N. Y. 
