Pride and Joy 
552 Class, a 1952 Introduction 
By John Bayliss 
Here's a wonderful deep maroon 
from another new hybridizer ... 
they keep popping up all over, 
don't they! Pride and Joy is well 
tested and has come through with 
flying colors. A basket at our 
Wisconsin State Fair show was 
just about the finest display of 
red glads it has ever been my 
pleasure to see. Pride and Joy 
has the attributes which produce 
a real commercial glad ... ab- 
solutely straight spikes, good 
opening power, good color, good 
keeping qualities. You will note 
that the spikes are well balanced 
with number open and number 
showing color, with the buds 
showing color almost to tip of 
spike. This is a real commercial 
prospect. Mr. Bayliss, the origi- 
nator, and Mrs. Woodcock, origi- 
nator of Pink Bouquet, are quite 
close neighbors and both are to 
be congratulated for these out- 
standing contributions to the 
Gladiolus Kingdom. 
Pride and Joy was rated as best 
deep red in its class by Mrs. 
Beulah Fortnam in her appraisal 
of the 500 classes in NAGC De- 
cember bulletin. 
Large........ $1.50 Ten for $12.00 
Medan... 1e25 Ten for 10.00 
Sma: 1.00 Ten for 8.00 
Bulblets ten for $1.50, 100/$10.00 
Crystal Orchid 
(Browne — 1952) 
A year ago I listed Crystal Orchid 
saying that I had not grown it but 
that it came highly recommended 
to me. This past summer I have 
grown it in several spots in my 
garden and found that it always 
produced the same fine, uniform 
show spikes. The five inch, ex- 
tremely ruffled florets have a 
slight chartreuse cast when in bud 
and up to the time they are fully 
opened, with slight lavender 
spears in the throat. This is a 
sport of Elizabeth the Queen, but 
is more ruffled and grows taller 
and has a much better spike and 
flower head. 18 buds and will 
open up to ten. Excellent opener 
from bud. Placement excellent. 
All exhibition growers will want 
to grow this fine new glad. Mrs. 
Fortnam rated it as the best in 
the 500 class. Produces fine, clean 
bulbs and bulblets in good quan- 
tity, which germinate very well. 
I predict that Crystal Orchid will 
attain greater popularity than its 
parent Elizabeth the Queen. It is 
improved greatly over its parent 
in height, ruffling, and placement 
and fills a great need in the white 
color class, both for exhibition 
and commercial growing. 
Large $1.25, Med. 75c Sm. 40c 
Bts. 10/$1.00, 100/$8, 1000/$65 
Per quart, $200.00 
