THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER'’S GUIDEBOOK FOR 1950 Page 19 

GROW SOME GLADIOLUS SEED 
This our eleventh year of selling seed from crosses using what we consider the 
highest quality recent introductions and like imports often before their release for 
sale. Nowhere in the world has there been available any such high pedigree listing 
of seeds of thoroughbreds even remotely comparable to our lists, though here and 
there a stray cataloger has tried it for a year or two. To do so takes thoroughbred 
varieties both of proven and “world beater” promise, hybridizing skill, time, patience 
and the luck of late season freedom from light as well as heavy frosts. Our first 
light frost has generally been around October 11th. 
All glad fans should try some gladiolus seed. Most advanced amateurs already 
do attempt some hybridizing with their newest varieties or most favored colors. 
Gladiolus seed broadcast or planted thickly in close rows, covered about %4 inch, kept 
on moist side and with at least partial shade, commonly produces bulbs % to % 
inches diameter the first crop. Most of these bloom the second year and selections 
may be made on color values, the bulb selected and its bulblets thereafter grown 
under number pending full performance from a large bulb. 
All modern varieties were so produced, either from field collected or hand 
hybridized seed. Our seed offerings are genuinely hand hybridized. Literally hundreds 
watched us hybridizing our glads at the peak of our blooming season. 
No two seeds, even from the same cross and pod, produce flowers just alike, 
though they are likely to favor parent characteristics. 
With about the most exclusive collection of “world beaters” to be found in the 
U. S., we have excellent opportunity to produce intriguing crosses, which in turn 
should rather consistently produce some seedlings above the average run of good 
standard varieties in each color class. They do for us. 
The only trouble is that we are as likely as not to part with some outstanding 
sorts worthy of introduction as a named variety. That may be your luck. If you grow 
such from our seed we should like first opportunity to introduce them for you. 
It might be advisable to let you know that it is the custom in the gladiolus indus- 
try that the person who grows and segregates the seedling bulb is given the credit 
of being the “originator” of the variety if it is named and introduced—not necessarily 
the person who made the actual cross. If a lot of new “originators” do not appear 
in four to five years as the net result of our offering these select crosses we will 
be greatly surprised. 
Permitting seed to set decimates bulblet production. Likely we sacrifice bulblets 
on rare new sorts to an extent that seed sales at these prices cannot remotely 
compensate us for this loss. Perhaps contribution to variety improvement will be 
our only compensation. 
Try your luck and skill in selection of parents. Depending on stocks available 
we will try to be very liberal. Seeds are 3c each unless otherwise indicated. 
How to order. Order in units of 5 (minimum), 10, 15 or 20 (maximum) seeds 
of a given cross. The seed bearing parent is the first variety mentioned. Canadian 
and other foreign customers do not have to secure a permit to. import seeds. Crosses 
are identified by number for your and our convenience. Order by number as “10 
Beadseoreg0 1. srt eo 2 $y 80”, 
901 Ad Rem x Chagrin. 918 Boldface x Mrs. R. G. Errey. 
902 Anzacs x Orange Gold 919 Boldface x Orange Gold. 
903 Anzacs x Orchid Marvel. 920 Boldface x Polynesie 5e. 
904 Anzacs x Tobruk. 921 Boldface x Salman’s Masterpiece 
905 Aristocrat x Luxury (530) 5c. 922 Bouton d’Or x Luxury 5c. 
906 Aureole x Circe 5c. 923 Bouton d’Or x Sundance 5c. 
907 Benjamin Britten x Kittyhawk. 924 Circe x Boldface. 
908 Benjamin Britten x Strathnaver. 925 Circe x Meistersinger. 
909 Blue Ice x Florence Nightingale. 926 Circe x Mighty Monarch. 
910 Blue Ice x Luxury. 927 Devotion x Circe. 
911 Blue Ice x Mrs. M. J. White. 928 Devotion x Pactolus. 
912 Boldface x Aureole. 929 Evangeline x Luxury 5c. 
913 Boldface x Boldface. 980 Havelock x Mrs. R. G. Errey. 
914 Boldface x Circe. 931 Joh. v Konynenburg x Prosperity, 
915 Boldface x Joh. v Konynenburg. 932 Joh. v Konynenburg x Strathnaver. 
916 Boldface x Mighty Monarch. 933 Luxury x Aristocrat 5c. 
917 Boldface x Mrs. P. Costa. 034 Luxury x Circe 5c. 
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