
ELIZABETH THE QUEEN 
THE 
LAVENDERS 
It seems to be the ultimate ob- 
jective of every hybridizer to bring 
out a “New and Better’ Lavender 
Gladiolus, and almost every grower 
we have ever visited has it in mind 
to produce the “real blue”. After 
crowing glads for about twenty 
years, including dozens of “new” 
blue glads, we are convineed that 
Blue Beauty still leads the pack in 
that color. We are gullible enough 
to try any new Lavender too, in 
fact, most any color that has a Lav- 
ender “tint” to it. When the season 
has ended, we usually say to our- 
selves that the great Elizabeth the 
Queen is still at the head of the 
class. She had a great year in our 
garden in 1949, too. The thousands 
of bulbs we grew are surely fine. 
We cannot remember an unhealthy 
“Queen”. Lavender Queen does 
well here, also Lavender and Gold, 
Siboney, Wedgewood, Abigail, Hil- 
dred, Benj. Britton, Gwen, Lady 
Marion, Huntress, and on and on 
into the night! 
We hope some day to produce a 
nice Lavender from our own seed- 
lings. We use a lot of pollen from 
the “Queen”. One never knows. 
does one? 
