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open from tight bud, tho I do believe it is wrongly classified and should be in the buff 
group. For me the basic color approached that of SUNSPOT, rather than yellow. GOLDEN 
FLUTE, GOLD MEDAL and GARDEN GOLD are the largest flowered in this class, verita- 
ble giants, the last named being capable of opening 7-inch florets. Other worthy varieties 
would include LODESTAR, SEQUIN, SUNDANCE and SPARKS, the last named having 
an orange scarlet feather on the lower floret. SPOTLIGHT still retains the distinction of 
being the widest grown yellow in commerce today. I rate this as one of the two best 
varieties Prof. Palmer ever produced, the other, BURMA. The flashy PACTOLUS pre- 
sents a never-to-be-forgotten-color combination. I predict a glowing future for it. Among 
the deeper warm shades, SKYLARK is one of my favorites, a brilliant showy orange with 
large golden throat. MARGARET JEAN has exhibition qualities. SUNBEAM is early 
and consistently produces tall straight spikes. CIRCE has giant wide open florets and just 
misses being an orange scarlet, one of the truly great glads from overseas. 
No glad is perfect and but few approach perfection, but among this select group 
FRIENDSHIP surely deserves one of the highest positions. Its long tapering spikes of 
frosty pink, blending to a white throat, make it one of the finest of basket glads and it has 
the added advantage of extra earliness. COMPLEXION does not fall far behind, a bit 
more ruffled and more self color with a paler pink throat. The photograph does far more 
justice to this lovely glad than can mere description. SEASHELL is rightly named, the 
flecking adding to rather than detracting from its beauty. COLUMBIA, with a pink halo 
around the outer edge of petals, will undoubtedly replace CORONA. It appears to have 
the health so lacking in the latter glad. PINK CLASSIC, heavily ruffled, fluted and with 
pointed petals, is both an excellent exhibition and commercial. EVANGELINE and C. D. 
FORTNAM are flesh pink beauties. We can excuse the former for the habit of wandering 
her florets around the stem. HONEY is as sweet as the name, one of the medium sized 
pinks that florists rave over. PHAROAH is plain petalled, vigor and consistency are its 
main virtues. We need more of these 100% cutters. NEW YORKER impressed me as 
Glad Meadow’s finest pink introduction. MISS CHICAGO, under ideal growing conditions, 
can be floral beauty at its best. SPIC AND SPAN continues to rule the commercial pinks, 
none being in sight at the present time to challenge this supremacy. 
Among the rose shades, NOWETA ROSE is a sure fire winner; it possesses florescence 
personified. The huge florets are slightly on the rose lavender tone. ELMER’S ROSE 
is more truly rose with slightly smaller florets. Both combine lovely in baskets with 
whites. I was privileged to grow the new BADGER ROSE prior to its introduction. Every 
spike grew shoulder tall, unfolding a ribbon of color. BADGER ROSE is introduced for 
its commercial possibilities, a real florist’s glad fulfilling a needed want. REBOUND and 
JUNE ROSE vie for earliness. Color is quite similar, form of spike quite different, RE- 
BOUND making taller, stretchier spikes. This glad merits serious commercial considera- 
tion. LILA WALLACE was introduced as a smaller BURMA. With me the color borders 
more on deep rose. Together with HONEY, WEDGWOOD and WHITE LACE, these four 
make an unsurpassed quartet of smaller flowered varieties. ROSY FUTURE has a most 
distinctive color. The scented variety GWEN reminds one of the older CHAMOUNY, but 
of lighter hue and larger sized florets. In spite of the array of new talent in this group, 
I continue to grow my favorite MISS WISCONSIN, still unsurpassed for color. 
I find my original evaluation of BRIDAL ORCHID enhanced by each successive year of 
growing. The photo reproduced on page 9 is of my Grand Champion spike exhibited at 
the 1951 Southern Wisconsin-Northern Illinois Seedling and Recent Introduction Show. 
Note that it carries 13 open florets. PATRICIAN also seems to improve with the years, 
fortunately as to health. It has an absolutely pure tone of orchid lavender. SIBONEY 
borders on the pink side of lavender and can make impressive spikes, loose attachment be- 
ing its only weakness. CORONET is a favorite for the home garden. GAIL is on the cool side 
of lavender, grows tall and continues to belie the belief that increase is on the short side. 
VALDA, the sensational 1951 Canadian release, is a huge deep lavender with better stretch 
and longer flowerhead than my old time favorite, ELIZABETH THE QUEEN. When 
stocks of this and the snow white EVENING STAR become plentiful, a basket of these two 
could combine the ultimate in both beauty and ruffing. The new ORCHID FANTASY 
will be in big demand by florists. It stands heat well and rarely flecks. Do not forget 
the smaller flowered WEDGWOOD, still a universal garden favorite. 
In KING DAVID, the originator of SPIC AND SPAN and BRIDAL ORCHID has added 
new laurels to his reputation as a hybridizer. I know of no glad that is more regular in the 
production of spikes of exhibition quality than this new purple, practically every spike 
being a replica of the photograph reproduced on page 25. Florets are in the giant class 
and have a pronounced picotee edging. The most beautiful basket I saw this season was 
