1949 Descriptive List 
Stralia (Both) (416) (47) Clear brilliant 
———_ salmony buff. Beautifully ruffled. 
One of the most beautiful varieties | have 
seen. Grows about 41% feet tall and has about 
all of the good habits you could ask for in a 
glad. Stock still small but will be extremely 
popular as soon as we have stock to supply 
the demand. Good propagator. 
Strawberry Peach (Salbach) (533) 
enna 44). (Mid-seaz 
son) Large wide open beautifully ruffled 
bright orange pink with soft scarlet blotch or 
feather. Opens 6-8 blooms of heavy substance. 
Good placement and attachment. Strong 
sturdy grower. A coming cut flower variety. 
Sulta ra New introduction. See page 28. 
Summer Gal (Zimmer) (442) (44) 
anim: | (iVid-season) Beautiful 
geranium pink with rose feather. Opens 7-8 
slightly ruffled blooms on a tall very strong 
rugged plant. Will be very popular. 
Sundance New introduction. See page 
O78 
Sunlight Grille) (416) (46) (Mid- 
7 _. season) Blend of orange and 
yellow giving the general color effect of light 
orange shading to a golden throat. One of 
the most beautiful varieties | have seen. Its 
one fault is that it needs good culture to get 
the long flower heads of which it is capable. 
A basket of this is something really worth 
seeing. 
Sunspot (Roberts) (417) (45) (Early 
7 ss. mid-season) Light apricot buff 
with rose spot in the throat. Opens 7-9 5” 
blooms on a tall spike. Beautiful color and 
fine all around variety. Has been a heavy 
winner the past two years including a cham- 
pionship at Binghamton, where it takes a 
good variety to win this award. 
Supreme Beauty (astian) (532) 
(47) Dark salmon 
pink with creamy yellow throat. Opens up to 
8 somewhat ruffled wide open blooms with 
several more showing color. A very nice thing. 
51 
Susannah (Lake) (440) (43) (arly 
mid-season) Heavily ruffled 
clear pink shading to white throat. 5-6 well 
placed blooms open on an 18 bud spike. Very 
heavy substance. This is one of the most 
beautiful decorative type varieties in existence. 
| fell in love with it the first time | saw it and 
have never changed my opinion. Not many 
growers have it because thru various mishaps 
stock has not become plentiful. But | think | 
have stock lined up now so that by another 
year | can supply more of it. | have never seen 
any pink variety that was so_ ravishingly 
exquisite. 

Susquehanna (Herridge) (416) (43) 
ad namic CVAT=SCdSOn) pan. ear 
peach buff with creamy throat. A bright un- 
usual color that is very popular. Everyone who 
has had this likes it. Opens 8 4-5” blooms. 
Tall grower and good all around variety that 
should become popular with the florists when 
stock is available. Can furnish small sizes now. 
You may find an occasional bulb of Susannah 
mixed in. Susannah is an exceedingly beautiful 
ruffled rose. 
Themesong (lein) (470) (47) Mallow 
iii pUurpleywithea «Cyclamen 
blotch. An unusual color. Tall straight spike 
with 7 or more nicely ruffled blooms open. If 
you want something different in a dark color 
this is it. 
The Roan New introduction. See page 
25. 
Tivoli (K x M) (460) (47) Lustrously 
—— _ beautiful soft rose color. Opens 
8-10 well placed blooms with strong attach- 
ment on a tall strong plant. This is one of the 
best varieties that has come out of Holland in 
some time and will be tremendously popular 
as a cut flower and for the home garden too. 
Topflite (LaSalle) (460) (46) (Mid- 
————_ season) A unique and beautiful 
shade of soft rose shading to a somewhat 
darker feather. Opens 8 5” blooms on a 
slender willowy stem. About 414 feet tall. 
One of the most beautiful of all pink glads. 


“Your gladiolus are the most beautiful and the bulbs the finest and cleanest that | 
have ever bought.”’ 
—Mrs. William Merritt, Illinois. 
