CIRCE has beautiful color but only opens 5 blooms with us. HENRI DE 
GRIEVE, HUAHUNA, SUNKIST, DAISY MAE, and ORANGE GOLD 
have all been blue ribbon winners in this class. 
In the Salmons, 3 varieties stand out, GORGEOUS DEB, POLYNESIE 
and SPIC & CPAN. GORGEOUS DEB is undoubtedly one of the most 
beautiful and most ruffled and easily makes our first 10. POLYNESIE 
with its smooth salmon color and long flowerhead and many open should 
become a leading commercial. SPIC & SPAN has won many blue ribbons 
and is generally rated very high and has already proven itself as a top 
commercial. BOLDFACE is rated very high but with us lacks length of 
stem below the flowerhead although a very striking flower. All of these 
will have plenty of competition from such superb “varieties ASSOLE BPE. 
KING ALFRED, PALISADES, PICARDY, DOLLY VARDEN, GEN. 
EISENHOWER and CORDOVA. 
The scarlet class has been augmented by such sterling varieties as 
HAROLD K. a very large, robust growing scarlet that was tops this year 
and should win first honors in its class. BONFIRE, another tall, robust 
grower of very brilliant color, ESQUIRE, another fine, strong growing 
variety. FLAME GIRL of fine color and FIRE GLEAM which should win 
at the shows as it opens up to 10. Will have to see them bloom another 
year to evaluate them better but they all looked very promising. They 
will have to be exceptional to beat RED WING which up to now usually 
wins at the shows in this class, and performed very well this year. The 
older favorites are CARN IVAL with its large cream throat for contrast, 
MOUNTAIN GEM, another strong grower, with silver edging's on its petals 
and TARAWA, avery clear and beautiful variety. This class should produce 
some good commercials as the florists like bright, clean scarlets and are 
looking for another VALERIA with longer flowerheads. 
In the long list of pink glads it is most difficult to pick out any particular 
variety as tops as we have so many outstanding glads in this class. How- 
ever, on this year’s performance, the following stand out, in alphabetical 
order: ANDRENA, a most beautiful pastel pink. BOISE BELLE, a bi- 
colored pink and yellow. CLARENCE D. FORTNAM, a heavily ruffled 
blush pink, EVANGELINE, in spite of misplaced florets, a tall robust beauty 
in other respects. HEART’S DESIRE, a beautiful very ruffled light pink, 
MAGIC WAND, another light pink beauty, SILCHERLIED, a most beauti- 
ful pink from HOLLAND, SKYWAY, which we think is the most promis- 
ing prospect for an early pink commercial. Of course, in any listing of 
outstanding pink glads, we cannot omit such older varieties as, CON- 
NECTICUT YANKEE, still winning grand championships, COTILLION, 
the variety that opens most of its florets at once, FRIENDSHIP, beautiful 
early commercial, JUNE DAY, the earliest pink, MARION PEARL, another 
beauty, and PHANTOM BEAUTY, the blush pink that opens 10 in perfect 
placement. I know I have not mentioned many other good ones, perhaps 
your favorite. 
Our preference in the red class is as follows and in the order named. 
MID AMERICA, a little soft, but it makes impressive spikes and is usually 
the winner at the shows. RED CHERRY, a fine reliable all purpose red. 
GRACIE ALLEN, a beautiful, clear glistening red. These are closely fol- 
lowed by such standbys as FIREBRAND, BIRCH RED, MANSOER, 
NANCY, RED CHARM, RED RASCAL and "ROYAL WINDSOR. It is in 
the dark reds that the greatest advance has been made with such varieties 
as the highly rated HAMLET; RUFFLED KNIGHT, the best dark red 
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