Mee =) ntroductions 
FROM PAUL BAKER 
Pharaoh (Higgins) (530) (Late midseason) Glowing pink-salmon with cream yellow 
~~ throat and midribs. Opens several very large well placed and well attached 
blooms on a 19 bud, 30 inch spike. Heavy substance. Plants get up to 5 feet or more. Strong 
healthy grower. It did fine in several trial grounds and was very good with me this past season. 
It looks like a coming commercial. It was one of three approved by the Trial Grounds Committee. 
Price $1.00 each, any size; Bulblets 30 for $3.00. Not less than 30 to a customer. 
FROM LEONARD W. BUTT 
(Originator's descriptions) 
Orchid Lady (Seedling 3729 A 3) (Picardy x Comm. Koehl) Tall, willowy orchid pink 
~— With a creamy yellow throat. Strictly interpreted by the color chart, it is 
phlox pink, but everyone who sees it calls it an orchid color. 
Grown the past few years as a commercial, it has proven itself in the highly competitive 
Toronto market. Different plantings have provided continuous bloom, all of it good and retail 
florists were asking other growers for it by name. A basket of these graceful spikes was admired 
a great deal in our display at Binghamton 1949. 
With reasonable culture, the spikes are five feet or better with two foot flower heads, 
18-20 buds, 414” florets with 6-7 open, usually but not always well placed. Definitely not a 
formal exhibition variety but fine for cutting and basket work. The odd spike will mildly crook. 
Early midseason. A liberal stock enables us to offer it at a low introduction price. 
Bulbs any size $1.00 each; 3 for $2.75; 12 for $10.00. (Units of bulbs and bulblets available 
wholesale). 
Zephyr (40462) (Picardy x Flagship) Deep flesh pink with a deeper reddish throat mark. 
~~ As one large commercial flower grower remarked when he saw it at Binghamton, 
“Looks like a bigger and better ‘Lipstick’.’’ It is reminiscent of that variety in its general color 
effect. 
The thing that determined the introduction of this variety is its ability to make big strong 
straight spikes, especially from large bulbs, with remarkable florescence. One spike is a bouquet. 
Frankly it’s not such a wonderful color but the spikes are those formal type ones so much in de- 
mand by exhibitors and the florists don’t dislike them either. 
46-48” in height, 24” flower head and all spikes straight, 18-20 buds, 8-9 open (that’s 
lots isn’t it), about 5-514” across, well placed and firmly attached florets. We like this one and 
think you will too, but in any event, the price is so low thanks to a good stock you can’t lose 
anyway. Early midseason. 
Bulbs any size $1.00 each; 3 for $2.75; 12 for $10.00. (Units of bulbs and bulblets available 
wholesale). 
Peter Pan (40375) (Harlekin x Crinklette) Miniature. Dark orange pink with deeper 
throat, a beautiful blend of autumn colors. Very heavily ruffled florets 3’’ to 
314” in size with 6-7 open at once, well arranged and firmly attached. Plants average 42” to 
“Despite the fact that hardly a drop of rain fell during all last summer | did very well with 
your bulbs. The plants and blooms for lack of water did not reach perfection. However they 
were exceedingly good and nobody around here had glads like mine. 
“Believe it or not SALMAN’S GLORY was by a long shot the prime favorite and | was 
offered 50c a bloom. This glad bloomed in exactly 55 days for me. The plants made a powerful 
growth and the huge blooms were a picture.” —Louis E. Bedard, Canada 
