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POLYNESIE 
SMOKY—80 Series 
586 FLYING FORTRESS (Wilson-Evans 
743) LM (about 93 days). With great 
consistency, it produces the biggest 
bulk of flowerhead in our fields. A 
lavender toned smoky with carmine 
throat. Florets 6-8 inches, ribbed, 8-13 
open on tall, extremely long flower- 
heads. Award of Merit by Ohio 
Society. 
Our rating, B 81. 
Each L .15 M .10 Bits (100, $1.00). 
486 GRAY SUMMIT (Butt) (our 1950 
introduction) E. Very clean, smooth 
gray with equally clean creamy white 
throat. The only smoky to come with- 
in a country mile of its color rating 
(92) is Tunia’s Mahomet (89). Pastel 
trailing at 84 but well ahead of the 
others. At excessive temperatures of 
105-110 about 1% of the spikes will 
do some slight crooking. Otherwise, 
its cut flower habits appear perfect. 
THE GLADIOLUS FANCIER’S 
Very fast propagator. Vigorous, 
healthy plants and bulbs. Good blooms 
are had from the smaller sizes, 62 
inches tall, opens 8 florets 4% inches 
diameter easily, 20-24 buds on 28-inch 
flowerheads, good cutting stems. 
A first at Pa. state (Greenville), ’48 
and an A rating at Binghamton, 749. 
Our 1sts at 3 Ohio shows, ’50. 
Test ratings, A 92. 
Each L .50 M .35 S .20 Bits .03 (100, 
S22) 
486 PASTEL (Both) (our ’42 import 
release) L, This is the perfect pastel 
blend smoky. Rosy, velvety gray, with 
petals widely edged steel blue. Color 
is soft, smooth without glitter. 414-5 
inch florets, round petalled, wide open. 
In the excitement over the larger 
Tunia’s Mahomet, this grand variety 
should not be overlooked. Few persons 
expect to find real quality of color in 
the “smokies,” with their gray tones. 
Our ratings, B 84. 
Each L .15 M .10 Bits (100, $.50). 
586 TUNIA’S MAHOMET (Both) (our 
743 import release) E. Probably the 
most popular dark colored variety we 
have ever marketed. A color descrip- 
tion sounds variegated, whereas, in 
fact, the colors smooth out in ex- 
tremely dark, velvety fashion. We 
would call it very deep, velvety, 
smoky plum rose with orange scarlet 
in throat. Seven inch florets, 7 open 
with almost no diminution in size up 
the stem with relative ease. 
Our ratings, 89-A-B. 
Each L .12 Blts (100, $.50). 
582 TUNIA’S WIZARD (Both ’47) (our 
748 import release) M. Mr. Both says 
12-inch florets are well within its com- 
pass. The color is not very far re- 
moved from that of Tunia’s Mahomet. 
The throat is lighter and more orange, 
the scarlet on lip petals more promi- 
nent. The size of floret is substantially 
maintained up the spike to the 8th 
open floret. All of the florets appear 
to be of the preferred “inverted” type 
(single lip, top petal to rear). 
Plant growth very powerful. Though 
having no bulbs over size 4 unsold to 
plant, we had a spike with 8% inch 
floret for largest floret at Tri State. 
Test ratings, B 84, 
Each L $2.00 M $1.50 S $1.00 Bits .15. 
