New York: “. . . your catalog . . is 
the closest thing I get to the correct 
appraisal (of new varieties) that I get 
through the mails.’”—Mike Sherman, 
ie 
Vermont: “The order of gladiolus 
corms arrived yesterday in excellent 
condition. Thank you for the gen- 
erous overcount and extras.’’—Law- 
rence L. Ward. 
Rhode Island: “Your shipment re- 
ceived and your treatment of our 
order for the ‘‘Large Grower’s Col- 
lection”’ and of our smaller order was 
‘out of this world’.’-—Roy W. Barber. 
Texas: “‘At our show held May 
26th and 27th, your White Christmas, 
Wedgwood, Poet’s Dream, Regal Red, 
Velvet Mantle, Beauty’s’ Blush, 
Friendship, and Florentine all won 
blues.’’—C. W. DeLord. 
Mississippi: ““‘Noweta Rose is gor- 
geous and lives up to all my ex- 
pectations.’’—J. W. Terry. 
New York: “I grow hundreds of 
varieties, all in small quantities, and 
not once have I found myself dis- 
agreeing with your summing-up of 
any of the varieties described.’— 
Andrew Ensminger. 
North Dakota: “Your generosity is 
exceeded only by the quality of your 
bulbs or vice versa, I don’t know 
which.’’—D. G. Hoag. 
Montana: ‘“‘My little blonde Eng- 
lish tenant, who rents my apartment, 
became very much interested in our 
glads. She had her little apartment 
full of flowers all summer, and 
learned the names of hundreds. I 
asked her a few days ago if she could 
remember any she had particularly 
loved and she replied without hesita- 
tion, ‘Oh, yes! Friendship and Little 
Sweetheart and the little white but- 
terfly one—didn’t you call it Starlet? 
There was a little gold one, too, about 
the size of Little Sweetheart that I 
liked very much, also, and those love- 
ly blues!’ Apparently her taste runs 
to miniatures.’’—Mrs. John A. Swan- 
son. 
ENCHANTMENT Has That “Peaches and Cream” Complexion. 
of you who have seen Noweta Rose in our koda- 
chrome sets where the background affords various 
size-criterions, have no doubt marveled at the im- 
mensity of this glad which often opens 12-15 5%4-inch 
florets. The kodachrome sets also reveal its wonder- 
ful, lustrous sheen. Noweta Rose is a glad with a lot 
of life and sparkle. 
Last year I not only stuck my neck out, but stuck it 
out about as far as a giraffe’s by declaring that Noweta 
Rose belonged among the “Dozen Best” glads. I was 
the happier, therefore, to note that Dr. Cason of Ten- 
nessee, who writes the leading season’s summary of 
glad varieties for the North American Gladiolus Coun- 
cil Bulletin, in the December, 1950, issue includes 
Noweta Rose in his “Ten Best Glads for the Year 1950”. 
Dr. Cason, who grows hundreds of varieties each year 
and may have grown two or three thousand varieties 
altogether in his experience, also said that Noweta 
Rose had the “greatest inflorescence of any glad he’d 
ever grown.” 
As long as judges want grand-champions big as well 
as beautiful, Noweta Rose is bound to be a leading 
contender. We had quantities of Noweta Rose with 
12 open florets in the field in 1950, this from medium 
bulbs. Planting stock will often show 10 open. Some 
new kodachromes of this variety in our sets will inter- 
est you. We have no quantity limitation on Noweta 
Rose this year as we had last year. 
CL 1-1.50; 10-12.00) CM 1-1.25; 16-10.00) 
(S 1-1.00; 10-8.00) (Blbts. 1-.20; 10-1.50; 100-12.00) 
“You sent me two corms of Noweta Rose and they 
gave me almost identical (and to me simply GLO- 
RIOUS) spikes! Believe it or not: 15 open on one; 14 
on the other. Is that good enough when you figure 
5°%-inch lower floret?” _ Martin Eliason, Minnesota 
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October Sunshine *** 
(420) (Quackenbush, 1947) (85 days) (Picardy x Yel- 
low Perfection) The mellow deep buff or light orange 
of this glad reminds one of a day in Indian Summer 
when a golden haze hangs over the silent landscape 
and Nature is in one of her most relaxed moods. 
Plain-petalled and softly recurved, October Sunshine 
has something of the restful quality of Deborah Samp- 
son. (L 1-.35; 10-2.80) (M 1-.25; 10-2.00) 
(S 2-.25; 10-1.00) (Blbts. 10-.25; 100-1.50) 
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