GYlads tu Home Decorations 
How empty and lifeless even the most beautifully funrished room looks without flowers! 
What a transformation one or more beautifully arranged bouquets can make! Flowers 
bring warmth and cheer, sweetness and charm into the home. Flowers bid welcome to 
guests, light up dark days, lift life above the commonplace, lend glamour to modest living. 
Small wonder, therefore, that the most home-loving people have always made the most of 
flowers. Flowers, like mother, are an essential part of home. 
Because they bloom over such a long season, glads play an unusual role in home dec- 
oration. Their wide range of color enables them to harmonize—or to provide an effective 
note of contrast—in any color scheme. Lovers of rich dark colors or of delicate pastels 
find their tastes gratified in the wide color range of the gladiolus. Size variations make 
glads suitable for the tiniest table decorations, or the most massive fireside bouquet. 
The vogue for flower arrangement has increased the popularity of glads. No longer 
do flower lovers crowd their blooms into small receptacles. Low baskets or wide-mouthed 
vases afford opportunity for graceful arrangement in either a formal or informal style. 
Since glads are a “steeple flower”, such mixers as’ euphorbia corollata, baby’s breath, pom- 
pon or single dahlias, perennial asters, etc., or huckleberry leaves and maidenhair fern, 
may be used to add charm and soften the effect. The varied personality of ruffled and 
plain-petalled glads, of massive and wire-stemmed types, gives’ one wide latitude for ex- 
perimentation in creating new decorative effects. 
If you have not grown the glorified modern gladiolus, try a few in your 1951 garden, 
and see what extraordinary opportunities they create for the beautification and glamouriza- 
ticn of your home! 
Remember to order some of these top 
show winners. The 16 glads listed be- 
low won a great many grand cham- 
pionships in 1949 and 1950. 
Sunspot 
Spic & Span 
Evangeline 
Pactolus 
Rhett Butler 
Friendship 
Butterscotch 
Sherman 
California 
King of: Hearts 
Heart of Gold 
Phantom Beauty 
Klondike 
Lavender Dream 

White Christmas 
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