Sm Xxx (442) (Both, 1949) (85 days) Pic- 
Necia e e e tured in color on page 41, Necia 
pleased us in our trial grounds by its sturdy growth, 
especially from bulblets. The florets of an unusual 
salmon-pink with a lavender rose blotch are well 
poised on tall, willowy spikes. It took us sometime 
to warm up to the color combination of Necia but its 
fine growing habits and consistently good placement 
won our hearts. (L 1-.50) CM 1-.35) (S 1-.25) 
(Blbts. 5-.25; 100-1.00) 
Nila *& *& *& (462) (R. Pruitt, 1947) (85 days) 
e e e This splendid dark rose-red outdid 
itself again this year. Frankly, we’re quite enthusiastic 
about it. The shoulder-high spikes bearing eight 
large, round, silky, heavily-substanced, recurved, self- 
colored, plain-petalled florets were as uniform as if 
Nature had turned them out on an assembly line. 
There is nothing temperamental about Nila! Don’t 
deprive yourself of this beauty. Pictured on page 8. 
(L 1-.20; 10-1.60) (M 2-.25; 10-1.00) 
(S 3-.25; 10-.60) (Blbts. Pkg. .25) 
*_*& * * (354) (Fischer, 1950) 
Nocturne ee (80 days) (Melrose x 
Black Diamond) Nocturne is a medium-large, hand- 
somely ruffled black-purple or ebon-hued rose-red. 
No other glad is like it in color. Florets are positively 
drenched with a resplendent, black-silk sheen. Per- 
haps the most beautiful near-black variety now in 
commerce. 
(L 1-1.00; 10-8.00) (M 1-.75; 10-6.00) (S 1-.50; 10-4.00) 
(Blbts. 2.-.25; 10-1.00; 100-8.00) 
x *& *& * (560) (Fischer, 
Noweta Rose se 1950) (85 days) 
(Rose O’Day x Elizabeth the Queen) (Pictured 
on pages 29 and 39) A _ hybridizer always sticks 
his neck out when he says as many nice things about a 
new introduction as we said last year about Noweta 
Rose. After blowing such a fanfare of trumpets about 
an apparent world-beater, there is an inevitable re- 
action during which one simply holds one’s breath 
until the customer-response comes in! I am happy to 
report that Noweta Rose made good in a huge way, as 
the excerpts from letters printed below attest. I will 
admit that it did not win as many grand-champion- 
ships as I had hoped, but the fact that abnormally cool 
weather delayed its blooming for two weeks so that 
most shows were over when it came into bloom readily 
accounts for that. It was grand-champion, however, 
at what was no doubt one of America’s two largest 
glad shows—the Central International Glad Show at 
Madison, Wisconsin. A spike grown by Mrs. Etta Feye 
of Bellevue, Iowa, won that distinction. Another 
spike of Noweta Rose also shown by Mrs. Feye at this 
show was nosed out by a superb Burma for Reserve 
Champion. It was Reserve Champion at the Washing- 
ton State Glad show at Yakima. Noweta Rose was best 
spike of the show at Hibbing, Minn. It was also 
awarded Best Recent Introduction at both the Bing- 
hamton and Boston shows. At Oneida, New York, it 
won the distinction of the Most Open Florets of the 
show. 
The pictures of Noweta Rose on pages 29 and 39 
reveal its color and form so well that there isn’t much 
to say in the way of description. What the pictures 
fail to reveal, however, are its size and sheen. Those 
Waxy, Snowy, with a Golden Lip, HEART O’GOLD is Fresh as a Regal Lily. 
