

Seasons Notes and Comparisons of Selected 
Varieties jor the Gladiolus Enthusiasts 
Topflite, Wedgewood, Lavender Prince, Gail, Peggy, 
Myrna Fay, Huntress 
The color of TOPFLITE can’t be surpassed. It’s just beautiful, but the spike was short of buds this 
year. I hope this isn’t a lasting fault. If I were to pick the one variety that is most outstanding in the 
development of the past two years, I would pick WEDGEWOOD. It is only in the 300 class, but it grew 
to my shoulder in height, and held six open nicely. A beautiful color combination. LAVENDER PRINCE 
is going to make a good commercial and will open well from tight bud, but it hasn’t the fine quality points 
for good handling. GAIL has all the points needed to handle easily and opens right to the tip. This lav- 
ender has what it takes. PEGGY attracts a lot of attention and is good. MYRNA FAY is a good grower 
and it is one I like to cut but the color is muddy. The only quality I really like about HUNTRESS is its 
real earliness and we will continue to grow it for that reason. 
Birch Red, Revion, J. V. Konynenburg, Valeria, Journey’s End, Dieppe 
There wasn’t a thing in our planting that would come up to BIRCH RED for growth, consistency, and 
beautiful color. It may be too dark for large scale cut flower growing but every small grower will have it 
sooner or later. REVLON makes fine spikes. J. V. KONYNENBURG is real good, but will never take the 
place of VALERIA as some have reported. We have got to discard JOURNEY’S END. It is a beautiful 
Glad but we can’t get to first base propagating it. DIEPPE steps into its place. 
Firebrand, Red Charm, Hiawatha, Burma, Rose Glow, Venida 
FIREBRAND can win, but as a flower I prefer RED CHARM. HIAWATHA doesn’t come up to my 
expectations this year. BURMA remains number one as a show rose but it can’t stand handling. Both 
ROSE GLOW and VENIDA look very good. 
Ravel, Porcelain Blue, Blue Ice, Abu Hassan 
I am putting RAVEL at the top of the blue list. We see many spikes of it with 10 beautifully formed 
florets open. PORCELAIN BLUE comes second. BLUE ICE was the best we have ever had and the near- 
est to a true blue, but it has a bad stem. ABU HASSAN is here to stay in the dark blue class. 
October Sunshine, Orange Gold, Trocadero, Flicker, Twinkles 
OCTOBER SUNSHINE is making a name for itself. Its color carries weight over anything around it. 
ORANGE GOLD is the nearest to true orange and it is a good variety, also. We like TROCADERO and 
think it is one of Lins’ best. FLICKER is an outstanding 200 class orange, and TWINKLES is a real break 
in the small class with its intense ruffling and bright. flashy color. 
Pactolus, Sparks, Sunspot, Donna, Hugh Price. 
One of the finest novelties of the year is PACTOLUS, a European buffy yellow with a distinct dark 
blotch. SPARKS held its last year’s reputation as being real good. SUNSPOT is not always good, but 
will make some real show spikes, while DONNA is still my favorite in the buffs. We had one Australian 
variety, HUGH PRICE, a buffy cream color with darker lower petals, that was very good. 
Mother Kadel, Crinkle Cream, Golden Arrow 
I’m still looking for a real good commercial yellow, one larger than MOTHER KADEL, which is our 
best at present. CRINKLE CREAM is good, but doesn’t suit me while GOLDEN ARROW hasn’t bloomed 
yet. There are a lot of yellow seedlings making their appearance, but few good ones are available yet. 
As space is limited I will just mention a few that were real good and that we will continue to grow and 
propagate: BELLE JAUNE, BENJAMIN BRITTON, BETTER TIMES, three from Europe that proved 
to be good, while SPITFIRE, ATHLONE, FIREBRAND, NILA, RED CHERRY, RED WING, SILVER 
STAR, SPINDRIFT and VICTORY QUEEN from this side of the water were as fine. I hesitate to start 
naming the ones that were no good as the list would be too long for the space we have. 
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