LITTLE SWEETHEART (Fischer ’48) 240 (E). A dainty ruffled pink 
and white. Very appropriately named, as everyone seems to fall in love 
with this charming little variety at first sight. Like most miniatures 
and small glads, it blooms in early season. About 6 of the ruffled, waxy- 
textured flowers are open on stems and flowerheads of medium length. 
Best Small 3-spike entry at Pacific N. W. show; also section champ at 
both Hibbing, Minnesota, and Purdue, Indiana. 
L .25, M .20, Blts. 15—.25, 100—$1.25 
LODESTAR (Palmer ’50) 410 (EM). A lovely clear yellow with slightly 
darker yellow lip petals. Six large frilled florets of good substance are 
open on moderately tall spikes. A real beauty, and looks like one of 
the best newer yellows. 
M .60, S .40, Blts. 4—.25 
MADELINE HEFTY (Woods ’50) 562 (M). Perhaps more lavender than 
rose, but in any event one of the best and most reliable growers of the 
many newer gilads in these shades. Makes fine regular spikes, and color 
is quite pleasing. There is a rose-violet feather, not too prominent, in the 
throat; main color is a fairly deep lavender of rosy hue. Spikes are quite 
tall, 7-8 open. Fast propagator. 
L $1.00, M .75, S .50, Bits. 4—.30, 10—.60, 100—$5.00 
MAJORETTE (Kroon ’50) 540 (E-EM). When we first grew this as a 
seedling, Majorette bloomed earlier than anything else in our patch. 
The next year, 1950, we had only small bulbs left to plant and could 
not judge its exact blooming season. Last summer, from a fair planting 
of large and medium bulbs, it bloomed about a week later than Friendship; 
still one of the earlier bloomers but not quite a first-early. Probably about 
the same blooming season as Treasure Island and Hi Ho. In any event 
we still like Majorette for its very large flowers of light rosy pink, and 
believe it will be a good commercial. 
L .35, M .25, S 2—.25, Blts. 10—.25, 100—$2.00 
MANCHU (B. Palmer ’45) 513 (EM). Still going strong, although now 
one of the older varieties in our list. A large buff-yellow, flushed oriental 
red on reverse of petals. This is offset by a very striking throat dart 
of dark orange-red. Florets are lightly ruffled with narrow pointed petals. 
Very odd in coloring and in form. Florets are large but hardly of giant 
size here; 6 or 7 open at once on tall, straight, willowy spikes, extra 
long flowerheads. 
M 4—.25, S 6—.25, Blts. 40—.25, 100—.50 
MANDARIN (Woods 751) 550 (M). A lovely seedling from Burma and 
Elizabeth the Queen. The color is definitely on the orange side of red; 
our private classification of the variety is 524. Not far from a tomato 
red, but with an orange cast. Florets are large and widely opened; of 
good substance and nicely ruffled. It will open 7 or more on quite 
good spikes. 
M $2.00, Blts. .30 
MARIONETTE (Butt 749) 218 (E). This varies in color from salmon- 
pink at the edges to a large yellow center, with very prominent throat 
markings of a dull plum color. One of the more popular of the Butt 
strain of little glads. Quite striking, and while we wouldn’t call it 
exactly pretty, it did win the judges’ votes as most beautiful 100-200 
glad at Yakima. It was also Best 200 in the open class, Minnesota. 
Rather slow propagator. 
L $1.00, M .60, S .40, Blts. 4—.25 
*““My order number 380 came last Friday, and I was so pleased with 
the shipment; such nice healthy looking bulbs.” _B.S.C., Montana, 4/23/51 
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