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THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 

FROM 1949 SHOW REPORTS 
BINGHAMTON. N. YY. INTER- 
NATIONAL: “Winner of the most merit 
awards in the seedling division was H. O. 
Evans.” (including the Van Cott Jeweler 
Trophy for the 530 seedling named 
Luxury and firsts in other divisions on 
Salman’s Masterpiece, New York, World 
Beater, Polynesie, Calvary, Tivoli, Ravel, 
Solid, Luxury, Wedgewood, Havelock. 
WIS. (Two Rivers): 
grand champion.” 
“Boldface was 
TRI STATE (Wellsville, Ohio): “ H. O. 
Evans scored most points in the Recent 
Introduction division, with firsts on 
Golden Favorite, Solid, Kittyhawk, Helen 
Eaken, Henri de Greeve, Radjah, Record, 
Personality, Mrs. R. G. Errey, Grand 
Monarch; also won a down under medal 
on Kittyhawk. 
A spike of Tivoli, entered by Dr. Pease 
of =Ghardont was Abéstuehaaies Color 
Champion and Grand Champion.” 
W. VA. (Wheeling): “In Recent Intro- 
ductions H. O. Evans won the sweep- 
stakes and N.E.G.S. Silver Medal with 
12 blue ribbons.” (Devotion, Hugh Price, 
Polynesie, Circe, Boldface, Havelock, 
Cotillion, Redowa, General Eisenhower, 
Sincerity, Kittyhawk and  Salman’s 
Glory). 
N. Wz OHIO (Toledo) “inwk.ele Evans 
won with Boldface, Polynesie, Tivoli, 
Velvet Dream, Perpetuum, Havelock, 
Wahoo, General Eisenhower and Grand 
Monarch. Also American Home Achieve- 
ment Medal with his beautiful giant 
orange pink seedling named Luxury.” 
OHIO STATE (Cleveland): ‘“Evans’ 
commercial display (about 60 x 10 ft.) 
was unique in that it was made up largely 
of Australian, European and Canadian 
varieties of late importation, properly 
labeled. In cooperation with the Higbee 
Co. Mr. Evans decorated the stage with 
large arrangements, the largest having 
a rainbow of colors, a sweep of over 
7 feet and containing 175 spikes. Evans 
held top honors in the commercial ar- 
rangement division and was awarded the 
N.A.G.C. for most points in classes 
available to a commercial grower, also 
the Wood Trophy for the best handle 
basket in the show. 
“Evans had champion seedling on a 
lavender miniature (can you imagine 
that!) winning the Evans Seedling 
Trophy, N.E.G.S. Silver Medal (for 
highest scoring 3 spike seedling (86), 
Award of Merit, American Home 
Achievement Medal (waived because we 
are not ready to name or release it) and 
a KS. color-chari. 
OHIO (Chagrin Falls): “Evans won with 
Abu Hassan (also sec. champ), Tunia’s 
Wizard (also largest floret, 744 inches), 
Boldface, Solid, Circe, Helen Eaken, Fly- 
ing Fortress, Lavender Dream, Mrs. R. 
G. Errey, Grand Monarch, Aljechin, 
DeGrysaard.” 
“Hyvans arranged. an excellent display 
of Recent Introductions, including many 
of the better foreign originations.” 
OHIO (Solon): “As usual, visitors were 
given the “run” of the Evans gardens 
where many fine varieties from Australia 
and Europe as well as Canada and the 
U. S. were growing, at that season mostly 
from smaller corms, but many making 
wonderful spikes. Evans had also pre- 
pared a fine display of the newer varie- 
ties and the house contained many fine 
arrangements. His winning R.I. entries 
included Prof. Goudriaan, Maurrie Tre- 
van, Sparks, Watermelon, Havelock and 
Mid-America, the latter also for largest 
floret 75g inches.” 
OHIO (East Liverpool): “Evans won 
with Boldface, Mid-America, Mighty 
Monarch, Maurrie Trevan, Havelock, Mrs. 
M. J. White, Jeanette White, General 
Kisenhower, Frohsinn, Tunia’s Master- 
piece and Mrs. R. G. Errey.” 
PA. STATE (Grove City): “Evans’ firsts 
included Kittyhawk, a sec. champ. Stralia, 
Personality, Mighty Monarch, Salman’s 
Glory, Henry de Greeve, Ace of Hearts, 
Sincerity, Benj. Britten and Ravel. Also 
3 special premium awards for seedlings, 
including his Luxury and Butt’s Purple 
seedling, both for 1951 introduction.” 
NOTE: Just when we thought the 
N.A.G.C was willing and capable of giv- 
ing us henceforth a full and complete 
show report tabulation, we abandoned our 
annual tabulation of winners in favor of 
carrying the Valleevue Test Garden 
Report. Now we discover the committee 
got tired in the midst of the job and 
gave us a very incomplete report, mak- 
ing three types of arbitrary omissions to 
suit their convenience and seemingly for- 
getting that the Council has a classifi- 
cation index and the grouped sizes could 
be separated. 
Also, with nothing like the 45 reports 
they had available, we ran a test on 
Boldface on 20 shows. They came up with 
10 firsts in 45 shows while we discovered 
26 first in 20 shows. 
