Page 16 THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
GROW SOME GLADIOLUS SEED 
This our twelfth year of selling seed from crosses using what we consider the 
highest quality recent introductions and like imports often before their release for 
sale. Nowhere in the world has there been available any such high pedigree listing 
of seeds of thoroughbreds even remotely comparable to our lists, though here and 
there a stray cataloger has tried it for a year or two. To do so takes thoroughbred 
varieties both of proven and “world beater” promise, hybridizing skill, time, patience 
and the luck of late season freedom from light as well as heavy frosts. Our first 
light frost has generally been around October 11th. 
All glad fans should try some gladiolus seed. Most advanced amateurs already 
do attempt some hybridizing with their newest varieties or most favored colors. 
Gladiolus seed broadcast or planted thickly in close rows, covered about %4 inch, kept 
on moist side and with at least partial shade, commonly produces bulbs % to % 
inches diameter the first crop. Most of these bloom the second year and selections 
may be made on color values, the bulb selected and its bulblets thereafter grown 
under number pending full performance from a large bulb. 
All modern varieties were so produced, either from field collected or hand 
hybridized seed. Our seed offerings are genuinely hand hybridized. Literally hundreds 
watched us hybridizing our glads at the peak of our blooming season. 
No two seeds, even from the same cross and pod, produce flowers just alike, 
though they are likely to favor parent characteristics. 
With about the most exclusive collection of “world beaters” to be found in the 
U. S., we have excellent opportunity to produce intriguing crosses, which in turn 
should rather consistently produce some seedlings above the average run of good 
standard varieties in each color class. They do for us. 
The only trouble is that we are as likely as not to part with some outstanding 
sorts worthy of introduction as a named variety. That may be your luck. If you grow 
such from our seed we should like first opportunity to introduce them for you. 
It might be advisable to let you know that it is the custom in the gladiolus indus- 
try that the person who grows and segregates the seedling bulb is given the credit 
of being the “originator” of the variety if it is named and introduced—not necessarily 
the person who made the actual cross. 
Permitting seed to set decimates bulblet production. Likely we sacrifice bulblets 
on rare new sorts to an extent that seed sales at these prices cannot remotely 
compensate us for this loss. Perhaps contribution to variety improvement will be 
our only compensation. 
Try your luck and skill in selection of parents. Depending on stocks available 
we will try to be very liberal. Seeds are 10 for 25c or 25 for 50c. 
How to order. The seed bearing parent is the first variety mentioned. Canadian 
and other foreign customers do not have to secure a permit to import seeds. Crosses 
are identified by number for your and our convenience. Order by number as “10 
seeds, of 1012 = 3 se Secon 
101 Ataturk x Stralia 121 George Mazure x Blue Ice 
102 Barb. Scott (Sal. 500) x Meister-122 Gloriosa 440 x 40442A (Butt, 436) 
singer 416 ae 123 Golden Ophelia x Beersheba 
103° Bearacheba xelobrule 454 124 Golden Ophelia x Gold 
104 Benj. Britten x Kittyhawk 125 Gold Rush x Sky High (Both, 312) 
105 Benj. Britten x Strathnaver age Bele) a ge 06 x George Mazure 
106 Blizzard 400 x La Favorite 436 128 La a sesits 436 & CB 1 (450) 
107 Blue Ice x Prof. Goudriaan 129 Luxury x Trobruk 454 
108 Boldface x Circe 130 Maureen Gardner x Ivory Sword 406 
109 Boldface x Mrs. R. G. Errey 131 Meistersinger 416 x Mid-America 
110 Boldface x Salman’s Masterpiece 550 132 Meistersinger 416 x Orange Gold 
111 Bouton d’Or x Luxury 133 Mighty Monarch x Mrs. R. G. Errey 
112 Circe x Boldface 134 Mrs. P. Costa x Snow Cruiser 500 
113 Circe x Meistersinger 416 135 Mrs. R. G. Errey x Tobruk 454 
114 Circe x Mighty Monarch 136 Nivea 500 x Fay (Both, 316) 
115 Devotion x Circe 137 Nivea 500 x George Mazure 
116 Devotion x Pactolus 138 Orange Gold x Aureole 410 
P17 Devotion x. Reg. Leahy 139 Orange Gold x Meistersinger 416 
118 Evangeline x Silcherlied 140 Pactolus x Devotion 
119 Fay (Both, 316) x Circe 141 Pactolus x Orange Gold 
120 Fire Gleam x La Favorite 436 142 Paul Rubens 470 x Flo. Nightingale 
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