of good texture. Facing and spacing are very good 
and attachment is also good. It has a very straight, 
strong, wiry spike and upright green foliage. The 
plant is healthy and propagation and germination of 
bulblets is fair. It will make an excellent florists 
cut flower when stock is available. While the spike 
lacks the optimum number of buds it will stretch 
to make a well balanced flowerhead when fairly well 
grown. Performance is up to 60” tall, 26”-28” 
flowerhead, 644” blooms, up to 15 buds, 6 open. 
EACH — L. $4.00 Med. $3.00 Sm. $2.00 
Blts. Each 40c. 10 for $3.00 
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BIG TOP 
(1942) Class 541. 75 days to bloom. Big Top is 
a winner everywhere for show or commercial. Color 
is medium to light pink with ‘attractive carmine 
feather in throat. Grows easily six feet tall with 
flowerhead up to 40”, blooms 712”, 22-26 buds, 6 
open. It’s BIG, healthy, beautiful and cheap. 
EACH — L. 2/25¢ Med. 3/25ce Sm. 5/25c 
Blts. 100/75c. 
BIRCH RED 
(1945) Class 552. 90 days. Birch Red has beauty, 
purity of color, and a satin sheen that is unequalled 
in the giant deep reds. This along with its excel- 
lent habits, vigorous growth, and easy cutting qual- 
ities, is making it a leading commercial. In its sea- 
son it outsells all other varieties combined in our 
cut flower trade. Show reports list it winning over 
a wide territory, as well as being a heavy winner in 
New York State in 1949 with 12 blue ribbons. It 
is always straight with excellent facing and attach- 
ment. In the field it grows up to 60” tall, 22” fl. 
hd., 542” blooms, 19 buds, 7 open and 6 in color. 
Bulblet production and germination good. 
EACH — L. $1.00 Med. 75c:’ Sm. 50c 
Blts. 10/70¢ 100/$5.00. 
BLACK CHERRY 
(1948) Class 554. 85 days. Black Cherry has been 
called the best black red, any size, anywhere, by 
experts and fanciers who have judged or grown it. 
I have never had it burn in the field under the most 
severe conditions. With ordinary field culture it 
grows 50” tall, with 24” flowerhead, 6” blooms, 19- 
20 buds, and opens 9 in the field. The color is that 
of a ripe black sweet cherry. It won 8 Blue Rib- 
bons in E.S.G.S. Shows and Binghamton in 1948, 
and 8 again in 1949. It is an easy healthy grower, 
plenty of bulblets on bulblet stock and small bulbs, 
but few on large. The well placed florets are of 
good texture, slightly wavy, and well attached on a 
