GUIDEBOOK FOR 1951 
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Marshall Montgomery, Geo. Mazure, 
Velvet Dream, Helen Eaken, Polynesie, 
Northern Queen, Winston Churchill, 
Folklore, Aljechin, and Jan Steen. 
OHIO STATE (Cleveland) “The R. I. 
division brought out 211 different varie- 
ties. H. O. Evans received the Achieve- 
ment Trophy for most points in the 
division with Tom Manley a close runner- 
up. Thirty 3-spike seedling entries were 
scored for possible Awards of Merit and 
American Home Medal. Evans seedling, 
now named Luxury, scored 91, the 
highest Award of Merit rating given by 
the Ohio society in many years, also 
winning the N. E. G. S. Silver Medal 
for top score seedling but it was ineli- 
gible to receive the American Home 
Medal, having won it the year before. 
Evans’ display was composed of bas- 
kets, vases and spike arrangements along 
the entire east side of the auditorium. 
All varieties were properly named and 
the entire setting artistically arranged. 
All varieties were recent introductions. 
With the Higbee Company again sup- 
plying hand painted scenery, settings, 
accessories and giant containers, Evans 
also filled the stage of the auditorium 
with massive arrangements. The Super- 
visor of Judges estimated that Mr. Evans 
furnished 3000 spikes for show use and 
his displays. 
“The Valleevue Test Garden display 
contained about 50 varieties most of 
which are not yet introduced in America. 
“A 3-spike entry of Boldface by Mr. 
Knierim scored 84 and received O.S.G.S. 
Award of Merit, also a 3-spike entry of 
Golden Flute by Joe Hartman scored 86 
for a similar award. Most points in 
commercial competitive arrangement di- 
vision went to Evans, as did most points 
in show available to a commercial 
grower. For this he _ received’ the 
N. A. G. C. Medal.” 
OHIO (Valleevue) “Most points in R. I. 
division to Evans with Tom Manley and 
Wells Knierim not far behind. Evans 
had 8 new whites entered in the 500 
class but Knierim’s Strathnaver, 10 open, 
25 buds in prime condition to the end 
of the show was best, going on to grand 
champion. In the Seedling Division 
Evans’ 3-53 (Luxury) became section, 
division and champion seedling of the 
show. Manley’s entry Palette (Kooy) 
437, a scarlet with blue in the throat, 
was Color Champion. 
OHIO (Chagrin Falls) “Tom Manley had 
most points ‘in the R. I. division. His 
3-spike entry of Evans’ giant orange 
pink seedling (Luxury), cut from the 
Test Garden, was champion 3-spike 
seedling and best 38-spike entry in the 
show, beating Evans’ 3-spike open di- 
vision champ Evangeline. In the 1-spike 
divisions Secrest’s seedling 312 (Golden 
Boy) was. seedling champion and 
warded off the competition of the best 
named varieties and went on to grand 
champion. Dr. Pease’s Evangeline had 
11 open and Joe Hartman’s Golden Flute 
was 7% inch diameter. 
OHIO (East Liverpool) H. O. Evans of 
Solon, Ohio had most points in the 
gladiolus show with 358, acquiring six 
trophies, a N. A. G. C. medal and other 
awards, winning with Reg. Leahy, 
Kawatiri, Boldface, Regal Red, Sky- 
master, General Eisenhower, Mid- 
America, Menelik, Evangeline, Eiffel 
Tower, Tunia’s Aristocrat, Tunia’s Elite, 
Orange Gold, Polynesie, Spitfire, Joh. 
von Konynenburg, Ravel and Pastel. 
Also his 3-53 seedling (Luxury) was 500 
series champ as were two others in the 
400 and 2-100 series. He had largest 
floret (Mrs. White), smallest (Coral 
Bells) and most novel (Frohsinn). His 
best R. I. (Strathnaver) went on to be- 
come grand champion and his spike of 
Catherine Beath (Coutts), a very deep 
yellow, was Color Champion. 
NOTE that our rather substantial num- 
ber of winning spikes were all field 
grown, without irrigation or any pam- 
pering whatever other than the fertili- 
zation and cultivation everything gets 
for bulb production. And we confine our 
entries largely to competition in the 
Recent Introductions division, where we 
encounter well grown. spikes from 
Valleevue. 
SIZE OF BULB TO BUY 
If economy be the aim, do not rely on 
small bulbs to give wholly satisfactory 
blooms. The small bulbs will all bloom 
but medium bulbs amost always give far 
better than “medium” sized spikes of the 
given variety. Our descriptions usually 
indicate whether or not the variety is an 
exceptionally fine producer of blooms 
from the smaller sizes. 
Commercially, bulbs are graded into 
6 sizes. Size 6 is under % inch diameter 
and other sizes range up to every % inch, 
the number 1 bulb being 1% inch up. 
Catalogs commonly offer bulbs as L 
latge)s (sizes 1 and 2) (1%. inch up); 
M (med ee (sizes 38 and 4) (% to 1% 
inch); S (small) (sizes 5 and 6) (%4 to 
34 inch) and Blts. (bulblets, the little 
hard shelled cormels which cling at the 
roots of the bulb). 
The size (bulk) of bulb you purchase 
determines the amount of food with 
which you are starting to produce a 
given spike. 
