Page 12 THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
TABULATION OF RATINGS BY COLOR GROUPS 
Omitted last year to make room for the Valleevue Test Garden report. Many 
customers voiced the hope that it would return to help them compare values 
available in the industry within a given size and color. No effort is made to limit 
the information to varieties offered for sale in this guide book. 
We have tabulated to size and color varieties tested by the Valleevue Test 
Garden in the last two years, listing first those given an A rating in 1949, followed 
by those which secured a B rating. No Cs or Ds. We include the color rating, 
of course. 
Next, in same sequence, we list those rated in 1950. These differ in that the 
ratings are here separated—the first capital letter being its Exhibition use rating 
and the second its Commercial use rating. If rated both years only the last rating 
is used. 
Since there are some other varieties, mostly older but well established standard 
varieties which have not been rated by the Valleevue Test Gardens, the quality of 
which warrant their inclusion for comparative study, we have added an additional 
listing below an open space of all we can think of that appear to qualify. No doubt 
we have missed a few. Our long experience with most of these varieties, in our 
opinion, enables us to give a fairly accurate rating. 
If you consider we should have included mention of some particular recent 
variety, kindly also remember that 103 varieties receiving Cs and Ds in 1949 and 
845 receiving Cs and Ds in 1950 have been automatically excluded. 
GIANT LARGE MEDIUM 
500 Series (over 574 inches) 400 Series (444-5% incl.) 300 Series (314-414 incl.) 
500 White — 400 White — 300 White — 
Morning Kiss 85-A White Wings 86-A Lourdes 86-B 
Strathnaver 96-A Lily White 83-B 
Anzacs 89-B naan ce wae Our rating, etc. 
White Goddess 88-A- now Mai Ne ear rae 
Adonis 89-B-B Vrede 90-B Tunia’s Snowball 89-A-D 
Salman’s Elite 85-0-B White Standard 82-B 
Willem Barendz 89-0-B Athene 89-A-A 
Calvary 92-B-A 
Our rating, etc. pying wine peck aoe 
Snow Cruiser 88-A-C orthern Lights 88-A- 
Leading Light 86-A-D eugiipacer | 
Silver Wings 91-B-B Ei. See 3 
White City 86-0-B 
Mt. Kosciusco 87-B-D 
Our rating, etc. 
Florence Nightingale 84-AA-A 
Igloo 85-B-C 
Spindrift 83-B-C 
501 White + 401 White + 300 White + 
Dutch Master 89-A Freedom 80-B 
Maureen Gardner 87-A-B 
Mount Baker 82-0-B Mt. Index 88-A-B 
Caribou 83-A-D 
Margaret Beaton 88-A-B 
White Challenge 83-A-C 
Violet Dickinson 86-C-B 
Mrs. M. J. White 83-B-D 
506 Cream 406 Cream 306 Cream 
Salman’s Glory 92-AA Ad Rem 84-B 
Annie Amelia 90-A Beersheba 86-B 
Prof. Goudriaan 90-A Helen Eaken 87-B 
Leif Ericsson 86-A-A La Paloma 84-B 
Melbourne 85-B-B Angela Lynn 89-A-A : 
Cathedral 88-A-B Green Light (406) 89-B-C 
La Valle 86-B 
Blondie 87-0-B 
Leading Lady 90-AA-A Ivory Sword 86-0-B 
Reg. Leahy 84-AA-C 
Connie G 88-A-D Lady Jane 88-A-AA 
Stratosphere 84-B-C Sincerity (Errey) 84-B-C 
Joe Stalin 84-B-C 
