e © * * * * (500) (Ritsima, 
Silver Wings ++ ** (500) (Ritsima 
(Sport of Picardy) This suede-textured white with 
creamy throat is probably the most beautiful of the 
white or cream sports of Picardy, though Eureka seems 
to average taller spikes. The sports of Picardy, unlike 
most glad mutations, differ from Picardy in form as 
well as in color. Thus Silver Wings has a touch of 
starchy corrugation not found in its parent which lends 
it a piquancy and a feeling of character. That Silver 
Wings is a great glad has long since passed beyond the 
realm of argument! (L 2-.25; 10-1.00) (M 10-.50) 
(S 10-.25) (Blbts. Pkg. .25) 
Sincerity ** (17 (rey, 198) (85 days) 
e This cream with showy scar- 
let blotch is a very striking number. Sincerity opens 
8-10 round florets close-set on a formal two-row spike. 
(L 1-.25; 10-2.00) (M 1-.20; 10-1.50) 
(S 1-.15; 10-1.00) (Blbts. 10-.25; 100-1.75) 
x * * (440) (Stevens, 1948) (70 
Skyway e e e days) ((Seedling derived 
from Mrs. Anna Pfitzer, Picardy, Our Selection, and 
Longfellow) X Mary Elizabeth) We made an unkind 
appraisal of this glad when it first bloomed last season, 
whereupon it straightway began producing a series of 
magnificent spikes of a perfectly halcyon tint of pure- 
pink, compelling a hasty revision of our judgment. 
You will love Skyway. For so early a variety it is 
exceptionally large. A coming commercial. TIlus- 
trated on page 8. (L 1-1.50) (M 1-1.00) (S 1-.50) 
(Blbts. 1-.15; 10-1.00) 
2 * (400) (Pfit- 
Snow Princess *——. ° zer, 1939) 
(75 days) The standard cut-flower white for many 
years and still grown by the acre. You will appreciate 
its solid worth as a commercial. Superseded, in our 
estimation, by several newer whites. 
(L 3-.25; 10-.80) (M 10-.40) 
(S 10-.20) (Blbts. Pkg. .20) 
x * *& (507) (Glass, 1947) (95 days) 
Sparks e e e (Seedling x Aladdin) To us 
Sparks is a very pale yellow rather than a cream. Its 
large explosion-blotch of scarlet reminds one of sparks 
shooting out from a live coal. Our illustrations on 
pages 8 and 32 fail to recapture the startling person- 
ality of this variety but they do show the splendid 
spike length characteristic of this unique glad. Sparks 
will liven-up your glad planting as few other glads 
will. (L 1-.20; 10-1.50) (M 2-.25; 10-1.00) 
(S 4-.25; 10-.50) (Blbts. Pkg. .30) 
* ww & & «(442) (Carl- 
Spic and Span ee Sah 
(80 days) (Picardy x New Era) This tall, spire-like 
salmon-pink, pictured on pages 8, 28, and 37, has had 
top rating for three years straight. Spic and Span has 
been adopted by Florida cut-flower growers and is 
now beginning to appear in florists’ windows instead 
of Picardy. This glad is a dream of a commercial, 
producing fine spikes even from small bulbs. In very 
heavy demand. (L 1-.25; 10-1.75) (M 1-.15; 10-1.25) 
(S 2-.20; 10-.80) (Blbts. 10-.35; 100-2.50) 
4 < x * * (400) (Chase, 1947) (80 
Spindrift Om er Oe Gays) m(Picardyex. \iye= 
na) How many top glads in this catalog come from 
those four premier parents: Elizabeth the Queen, Rose- 
marie Pfitzer, Picardy, and Myrna! In Spindrift we 
have a waxy pale cream that opens 7-8 starry florets 
on conventional flowerheads. Might be called an im- 
proved Myrna. (L 1-.35; 10-3.00) (M 1-.25; 10-2.00) 
(S 2-.25; 10-1.00) (Blbts. 15-.25; 100-1.00) 
* zw * *& = (413) (Palmer, 1944) 
Spotlight e e e ¢ (80 days) (Picardy x 
Yellow Seedling derived from Jonquil, Dawson, Golden 
Dream, and Orange Queen) Prof. Palmer’s best yel- 
low and the leading yellow commercial today. Opens 
5-6 round plain-petalled florets of a medium-deep 
shade on spikes of gratifying stretchiness. Has a bright 
spark of scarlet deep in the throat. Spotlight fiiled a 
long-felt want when it was introduced. Pictured on 
page 28. (L 3-.25; 10-.80) (M 10-.40) 
(S 10-.25) (Blbts. Pkg. .20) 
x *k * *& (200) (Baerman, 1944) (80 
Starlet ee days) ((Zona x Baby De- 
corah) X Queen the Bremen) Tiny, frilly Starlet with 
blooms perched like fluttering white butterflies on fine 
wiry stems is the most graceful of all glads and the 
most popular miniature gladiolus now in commerce. 
The elegantly-poised little florets possess a chiselled 
perfection of form as if Jack Frost had carved them 
out of sparkling new snow. A bewitching little beauty 
that is a dream for wedding decorations or small table 
arrangements. An ace performer, too, that would 
easily rate four dots as well as four stars with the 
discriminating florist. Pictured on page 37. 
(L 2-.25; 10-1.00) (M 10-.50) 
(S 10-.25) (Blbts. Pkg. .20) 
* *_* * (566) (Harris, 1950) (85 
Sterling e e e days) (Elizabeth the Queen 
x Rangoon) Sterling might be described as a lavender- 
purple version of Elizabeth the Queen, but tending to 
more open florets (8-10) and to extra flat-open blooms 
of the heaviest substance. Not entirely free from fleck- 
ing with us last season but truly an impressive and 
distinctive new offering from the originator of Florence 
Nightingale. Pictured on page 17. 
(L 1-2.00) (M 1-1.25) (S 1-.75) 
(Blbts. 1-.20) 
Stormy Weather *** 
(480) (Barrett, 1947) (80 days) (Ivy Robertson x 
Elizabeth the Queen) Well-named! Like the shifting 
kaleidescope of a stormy sky is this changeable rose 
and grey glad, no two spikes of which ever look the 
same. In its two-tone effect it reminds one also of 
changeable silk. An extra-tall grower readily opening 
8-9 cream-throated blooms. Definitely one of the best 
smokies. Pictured on page 8. 
(L 1-1.00) (M 1-.75) (S 1-.50) 
(Blbts. 10-.75) 
Strawberry Peach ***~ 
ee 8@ @ 
(533) (Salbach, 1944) (85 days) What a name! What 
a glad! This voluptuous beauty caused a run on the 
bank last year that nearly cleaned us out. Strawberry 
Peach is a luscious, melting buffy-pink of fabulous 
substance and incredible ruffling. Please don’t order 
omar of these this year or you'll clean us out 
again. (L 1-.25; 10-2.00) (M 2-.30; 10-1.20) 
(S 3-.25; 10-.60) (Blbts. 15-.25; 100-1.50) 
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