1950 Descriptive List 
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leaf hoppers and‘! am not sure but that thrips carry it. DDT does not kill these other 
insects so it is well to use some other insecticide along with the DDT if you see any 
spotted flowers in your patch. Nicotine sulphate or some other insecticide is all right. 
Insecticides and fungicides are listed on page 55. 
No. 2. 
DISEASE Like most every other plant grown gladiolus do sometimes get disease and 
to avoid diseases you should disinfect your bulbs with Lysol, New Improved Ceresan, 
Delbetar ar some other good fungicide as listed on page 55 and should be sprayed 
with a good fungicide. Bulbs are much cleaner when grown on soil a little on the dry 
side but watered if necessary. They will not stand wet soggy soil with poor drainage. 
A six page circular giving more complete cultural details goes with every order 
of bulbs. 
To Help You 
To select varieties | am giving you my personal opinion on certain characteristics of some 
of the leading kinds. Of course all these varieties will not always grow the same under all 
conditions but in general they are as | have listed them. The following notes should help to 
guide you in selecting the types that you want. 
Tallest Avreole, Beacon, Bernadette, Big 
————~ Joe, Bloemfontein, Blue Lagoon, 
Capistrano, Carrara, Chief Pontiac, Choctaw, 
Citation, Commando, Corona, Cotillion, Cover 
Girl, Debutante, Esquire, Evangeline, Fan- 
dango, Firebird, Fuchsia Belle, High Finance, 
Jolly Roger, King Alfred, Lady Marian, Lake 
Placid, Lancaster, Lavender Prince, Lucky, 
Manchu, Maxa, Mighty Monarch, Mistaya, 
Montpelier, Ogarita, Orange Gold, Pali- 
sades, Personality, Picardy, Preview, Pros- 
perity, Redowa, Salman’s Glory, Sir Galahad, 
Skymaster, Spotlight, Strathnaver, Strawberry 
Peach, Titan, Trojan, Violet Dickinson. 
Earliest Abnaki, Adorable, Adoration, 
——__ Atom, Babs, Bo-Peep, Concord, 
Connie G, Cordova, Cupid, Cynthia, Donella, 
Elegy, Firebird, Fire Gleam, Friendship, Gen. 
MacArthur, Huntress, King Lear, Lemon Ice, 
Mauvie Rose, Myrtle Grace, Ocean Spray, 
Parma, Phipps Jr., Preview, Red Plush, Rose 
Charm, Sequin, Truelove, Vangold, Wedg- 
wood. 
Largest Bernadette, Big Joe, Big Top, 
————_ Burlington, California, Canopus, 
Carrara, Chief Pontiac, Chungking, Com- 
mando, Convoy, Corona, Evangeline, Fire 
Gleam, Gen. Eisenhower, Grand Opera, 
Harold K, King of Hearts, Leeuwenhorst, 
Marjorie, Maxa, Mighty Monarch, Minstrel, 
Mistaya, Mrs. C. W. Gannett, Mrs. R. G. 
Errey, Oriental Pearl, Personality, Picardy, 
Red Cherry, Royal Windsor, Salman's Glory, 
Sherwood, Strathnaver, Tunia’s Elite, Tunia’s 
Mahomet, Tunia’s Wizard. 
Most Open Blooms Adonis, Al- 
=n nn is Les — COnTUIR; )ahe 
tietam, Athlone, Avalon, Beacon, Big Joe, 
Black Cherry, Blessed Damosel, Boise Belle, 
Bold Face, Boulogne, Bridal Orchid, Capella, 
Carnival, Chamouny, Charlotte Russe, Charm 
O’'Luck, Choctaw, Chungking, Cleo, Coach- 
man, Colonial Dame, Connecticut Yankee, 
Cotillion, Dorothy Armstrong, Elizabeth The 
Queen, Evangeline, Firebrand, Flying Fort- 
ress, Freedom, Frosty, Fuchsia Belle, Gen. 
Eisenhower, Gerry, Golden Arrow, Gor- 
geous Deb, Grand Opening, High Finance, 
Hiho, Ivy, Janice, Kestrel, King Click, Ladrone, 
Lancaster, Laramie, Marjorie, Marshall Mont- 
gomery, Mazda, Message of Song, Montpelier, 
Mrs. C. W. Gannett, Nila, Ogarita, Ohio 
Nonpareil, Opechee, Pactolus, Palisades, 
Pandora, Paul Robeson, Perdita, Personality, 
Phantom Beauty, Poinciana, Purple Supreme, 

“I! want to thank you for the bulbs you sent me which arrived in fine condition. | am sure 
that they will prove to be a delight to me as | never saw such clean and healthy looking bulbs. 
—Julius Bierhals, N. J. 
