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< (440) (Fischer, 1951) (75 
Sweet Sixteen days) (Sport of Beauty’s 
Blush) (Featured on Front Cover) 
The variety Beauty’s Blush has endeared itself to 
glad fans from coast to coast, equally for its beauty 
and for its rare capacity to produce, consistently, ram- 
rod spikes fully five feet tall. There has been a real 
need for a glad of its exquisite coloring—white, deli- 
cately flushed a sparkling pale pink. However, ex- 
quisite as Beauty’s Blush undoubtedly is, some fans 
have wished it were a deeper pink. Now nature, with 
true bounty, has given us this wonderful performer in 
both blush pink and true pure-pink forms! This is the 
more remarkable, as mutations are nearly always 
lighter than the original variety (as witness the num- 
erous sports of Picardy). 
Sweet Sixteen is a true pure-pink of the same rav- 
ishingly exquisite tint as Coryphee—long the criterion 
of perfection in pink coloration. If you are a glad fan 
of recent vintage and do not remember that famous 
but difficult-to-grow variety, Friendship and Tivoli 
may be mentioned as more recent approximations to 
the famous Coryphee pink color. Sweet Sixteen 
differs from them only in leaning just a trifle toward 
rose-pink—i. e., the cool side of pure pink, rather than 
toward the salmon. 
The artistic geniuses of ancient Athens, whose crea- 
tions reached the zenith of earthly perfection, con- 
sidered the highest form of beauty as being the beauty 
of a noble repose. Thus the serene sculptures of 
Phidias were considered superior to the Laocoon. Na- 
ture does no mean job of sculpturing herself in pro- 
ducing the form of a beautiful flower. I submit that 
the serenely rounded and recurved form of the plain- 
petalled Beauty’s Blush expresses a noble repose more 
truly than any other gladiolus I can call to mind. 
Take a look at the halftone on page 39 and tell me if I 
am wrong. Remember that Sweet Sixteen is identical 
in form with Beauty’s Blush. 
Sweet Sixteen first appeared in our planting of 
Beauty’s Blush in 1948 when we found two bulbs. It 
appeared again in 1949, when we found approximately 
fifty bulbs. In 1950 we marked out six more. All 
these sports were identical in form to Beauty’s Blush 
and all were the same exquisite tint of Coryphee-pink. 
It is quite possible that most of them—and perhaps 
all—came from a single mutation, the bulblets of which 
became scattered before the mutation revealed itself 
by blooming. My friend and fellow-grower, George 
Lasch, also segregated this mutation in his planting of 
Beauty’s Blush in 1948 and is also offering it this year 
under the same name as we are—Sweet Sixteen. 
In our fields at least, Sweet Sixteen, Tivoli, and 
Friendship were the “big three” among light pinks last 
year. Sweet Sixteen is definitely the most exquisite 
of the three, nor does it lag in any way in performance. 
Do not fail to add Sweet Sixteen, the glad with the 
schoolgirl complexion, to the bevy of gladiolus beauties 
that will bloom in your 1951 garden. 
One of our cut-flower crew, Rita Millard, is pictured 
on our front cover holding the armful of Sweet Six- 
teen. 
Any size, each, $2; 12 for $20. 
1L, 1M, 1S, 10 Blbts. for $6. 
5L, 5M, 15S, 100 Blbts. for $40. 
14 pint bulblets for $100. 
< (406) (Fischer, 1951) 
Cream Orchids (7) ).)5) (Roe O'Dea 
x Poet’s Dream) (Seedling No. 256-45) 
No doubt this will strike you as an odd 
name for a gladiolus but when you see its waxy, 
creamy florets airily perched like giant orchids along 
the stem, you will instantly recognize its appropriate-- 
ness. In fact “Cream Orchids” is the garden name of 
this variety and we decided that we could think of 
nothing better. (A “garden name” is a temporary 
name given to an outstanding seedling to lift it above 
the mass of numbered seedlings—specific numbers be- 
ing hard to remember when one has hundreds of 
selected seedlings under test.) 
Cream Orchids is the first laciniated seedling we 
have introduced. Ordinarily we do not care for lac- 
iniation in glads but Cream Orchids is so full-petalled, 
so opulently formed as well as being possessed of such 
an airy grace that it is in a different class from the 
usual laciniated glad. Parrot tulips exemplify lacinia- 
tion par excellence in flowers and while Cream Orchids 
is not as fantastic by far as a parrot tulip, it neverthe- 
less is a glad with an unique personality. For corsage 
work it is quite striking. 
Another feature about Cream Orchids is that a single 
planting will bloom over a long period, a desirable 
trait for a corsage variety. All the Cream Orchids we 
took to shows over a period of nearly a month came 
from a single planting. 
In the scramble of work during the blooming season, 
we failed to get the picture of a representative spike 
of this novel variety that we intended. It does appear, 
however, in the basket on page 8, but not in a way 
which does justice to its beauty. 
Cream Orchids is a fine tall grower and like most of 
the Noweta introductions, (bred in hot Midwest sum- 
mers where the thermometer often reaches 100°) is 
wonderfully heat resistant. We have yet to find a 
garden visitor who did not like Cream Orchids and we 
believe it will have a strong appeal for those who like 
the fanciful and who delight in artistic arrangements. 
Any size, each, $2; 12 for $20. 
1L, 1M, 1S, 10 Blbts. for $6. 
5L, 5M, 15S, 100 Blbts. for $40. 
1% pint Blbts. for $100. 
Ww ¢ (200) (Fischer, 1951) (70 days) 
hite Lace ((Elizabeth the Queen x Lav- 
ender and Gold) X Starlet) (Seedling No. 138-47) 
Take a look at the pedigree of White Lace, folks. 
You’d just know that a gladiolus with a family tree 
that included Elizabeth the Queen (which has pro- 
duced more outstanding progeny than any other 
gladiolus in history, not excluding Picardy), Lavender 
and Gold (which has produced such outstandingly 
beautiful things as Wedgwood, Heart O’Gold, Cupid, 
and Rose Charm), and Starlet (the most graceful of 
all glads and an ideal thing to use when hybridizing 
to produce miniatures) would be something extra- 
fancy. And extra fancy White Lace is! I consider it 
the most beautiful small-flowered gladiolus in exist- 
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