Comments On Our 1949 Introductions 
FROM MISSOURI: 
“All six of your 1949 introductions produced excellent spikes and bloomed to perfec- 
tion.” —M. L. Wolfe 
FROM VERMONT: 
“Friendship bloomed early and I think it is a crackerjack—one of the prettiest things 
I know of.” —Elmer Gove 
FROM MICHIGAN: 
“For my money FRIENDSHIP is tops . . . FREEDOM was excellent .. . VELVET 
MANTLE is grand—tall, straight, does not burn and holds 8 open. SUMMER SNOW is 
the whitest of them all and extra fine. CUPID is a grand little white. REGAL RED a 
grand medium red that is tall and straight with perfect placement.” —Bruce Collins 
FROM TENNESSEE: 
“Velvet Mantle has excellent color and produces long buggy-whip spikes. Friendship 
should certainly go a long way as a florist’s glad. Freedom produces very consistent precise 
spikes and must be heard from in this color class. As for Summer Snow and Cupid, I was 
simply carried away with both of them.” —Dr. John F. Cason 
FROM NORTH DAKOTA: 
“T entered your premium glad Summer Snow in the Moorhead, Minnesota, flower show 
and took the grand champion ribbon home with me.” —Cy W. Miller 
FROM OREGON: 
“Velvet Mantle is a beauty . . . with seven florets open; Friendship was extra good 
with seven to eight 54-inch florets; Summer Snow, so beautifully ruffled and pure, with 
seven 95-inch florets is an admirable addition to the whites; Regal Red is a very good color 
and has extra good substance; it had six 6-inch florets with five more in color.” 
—Erich Becker 
FROM MINNESOTA: 
“Regal Red produced a giant flower on a long flower head even in dry weather . . . I 
like Summer Snow very much.” —W. H. Ramsey 
FROM ILLINOIS: 
“Just won a blue ribbon with your Velvet Mantle at Kankakee; it is a grand introduc- 
tion in its color class. Regal Red was enormous with strong color appeal.—J. C. Rossetter 
FROM CANADA: 
“Cupid was very good, Freedom was excellent, but Friendship was simply terrific. I 
can truthfully say that, to me, it was the most beautiful thing I grew.” —C. W. Currie 
FROM NORTH CAROLINA: 
“IT cut my first Regal Red this morning. It is a beautiful flower and truly regal.” 
—J. Watson Moon 
FROM WASHINGTON: 
“My entry, Friendship, won first in its class at Yakima yesterday.” —V. M. Libby 
FROM IOWA: 
“I have grown most of your introductions of past years and have never been disap- 
pointed.” —Dr. J. J. Jecmenek 
“IT think your seedlings constitute a distinct strain of glads, something I have not seen 
since A. E. Kunderd’s more than a quarter of a century ago.” —Foss Heaton 
FROM DELAWARE: 
“At the Maryland show a well-nigh perfect spike of Cupid took first a blue and then a 
gold ribbon as 300 size champ of the show. My spike of Friendship took a blue. ... In- 
cidentally, a local florist, who has been in the business over 30 years, told me that Cupid 
and Friendship were the perfect white and the perfect pink for floral work. He was 
tremendously impressed with them.” —R. E. Bowland, Jr. 
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