Brown Stain is a good color and a fine garden subject. Casa Morena a good parent as attested by 
its striking child, Argus Pheasant. Stag At Eve is a fine breeder for Golden Tans. Utah Sunset has 
such smoothness of texture, and passes this quality to its seedlings, that it is proving a superb parent 
for blends and tans, but it is so large care in selecting smaller, trim varieties to be used with it 
should always be considered. Utah Sunset, and its sister, to be introduced next year as Glistening 
Copper (No. 48-72), were the outstanding new parents I used in blends and browns. 
ORANGES 
We have sought orange coloring ihrough the deep yellows and brilliant blends, and considerable 
richness and depth of color have come as attested by Rocket, Orange Gem, Gold Sovereign and 
Royal Sovereign, but the true oranges are coming from the Seashell and Flamingo pinks. Last 
year's seedlings gave a host of brilliant oranges from these lines—nearly all involved either Pink 
Formal, Apricot Glory or Salmon Shell coupled with lines of the first two. We are sure Melody Lane, 
Hi Time and Premier Peach will be highly useful for this color, and look forward to their use with 
the 1951 seedlings of our own lines. Seedlings involving Melitza will be useful here, but we warn 
against the long falls that might result from the line, so use of more flaring and shorter-falled varieties 
should be employed. 
CREAMS 
Good creams have not been plentiful, and we have not demanded many in the garden picture, 
although they prove most useful for foils with the very dark and gaudy colors. Patricia Joyce, Desert 
Song, Amandine, Snoqualmie, Carved Ivory and Ruffled Bouquet have been good. We now need 
only to refine certain qualities and to add ruffling to bring forth new and acceptable sorts for our 
gardens. Use of yellows and whites in breeding for creams is almost taken for granted. 
: YELLOWS AND BI-COLORS 
These might take the place of creams in the garden picture, although most of them have had 
yellow standards and white falls bordered yellow (i.e., Tranquil Moon, Cream Gold, Song of Songs 
and Truly Yours). And now we have a new race of plants with white standards and yellow falls that 
have sometimes been called yellow amoenas, but whatever they may be their charm and new color 
arrangement is novel and charming. Pinnacle, Fair Day, Gladys Moncrief and Lamplit Hour were 
the first of these. Summit and others are coming on the horizon. These are going to be useful parents 
with the Shell Pinks. Already we have heard of Pinnacle having produced first generation pinks 
when used with them. 
MULBERRY 
A neglected color class, but nevertheless we have some fine ones and room for other good addi- 
tions. Mulberry Rose, Elmohr and Master Charles are the good standbys in this color. Vice Regal 
should not come here, perhaps, since its coloring has more “‘red’’ in its makeup, as does Michael 
Barton. We found Velvet Mantle threw a goodly number of rich mulberry seedlings crossed with 
Deep Maroon (49-18 A). We think our Mohr Glorious a richer, heavier substanced Elmohr type, will 
be a splendid addition to this color range in a border plant, as will the darker Concord Velvet. 
PLICATAS 
So varied have the plicatas come the last ten years there is one to please every lover of this 
pattern. The white-ground plicatas, precisely marked with blue, violet or purple, have come a long 
way from old Madam Chereau and Parisiana, and some are, now, very striking garden subjects 
and superb show specimens. We like Aldura very much, and its seedling Blue Rim is a good show 
specimen. Blue Shimmer we like for its stunning color and clean contrast, but it lacks the substance 
found in Aldura, however, its seedlings are proving rather good. DeForest has come up with a fine 
array of plicatas: Gay Border, Tiffanja, Rodeo, New Hope, Caroline Jane, Gala Finale and others. 
We like Fay’s Fire Dance, Tompkins’ Starkist, Masked Ball, Firecracker and our own Rare Marble. 
Craig's Rich Raiment offers an unusual pattern with a richness of coloring. Daffy has no two petals 
alike and has a strong tendency to produce seedlings with this characteristic. Joseph’s Mantle gives 
the added charm of re-blooming, as does Mrs. Kerr’s 1952 introduction, Echo Valley, and we still 
like its counterpart, Minnie Colquitt. Snyder's Insignia is a wide globular bloom that will be popular 
when stock permits wider distribution. In the cheaper varieties Mount Timp, Tiffanja, Rose Top and 
Tiffany are still popular. If you like refinement and a bit of ruffling in the buds Melody Lace 
will please. 
LEMON YELLOWS 
We mention these after the plicatas for they have come through them. Elsa Sass was the first 
and is still good. It is a super-parent for plicatas when bred to them, or for lemon-yellows if used 
in that direction. We are testing Mrs. Allman’s plicata, Happy Talk out of Elsa Sass x Coritica, for 
the slides of it were so appealing. Belle Amie and Mattie Gates are somewhat similar in that they 
carry a white area in the falls, yet they are quite distinct. Marion Vaughn has not been large or 
tall for us, yet we hear of fine things from it crossed with Mattie Gates. Our own Cool Lemonade 
is neither large or tall, but since it starts the tall bearded season (together with Mount Timp) it always 
seems to endear itself to us year after year. DeForest's Clear Sailing impressed us most in this 
color range because of its good height, fine branching and beautiful flaring falls—it will be tremen- 
dously popular. We rather think these lemon-yellows will cross well with such things as Celestar 
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