SOCIETY LITERATURE 
In the U. S. there are 55 or more state and regional societies. 
in Canada. 
About 35 
The New England Gladiolus Society (NEGS) has about 40 affiliations and 
issues annually 4 magazines of some 70 pages each and a year book of about 220 
pages. $4.00 per year. 
The North American Gladiolus Council (NAGC) has about 50 affiliations and 
issues four Bulletins of about 110 pages each. $2.00 per year. 
The Canadian Gladiolus Society (CGS) has about 35 affiliations and issues 
a 200 page annual especially valuable for its complete symposium of some 1000 
varieties in odd years and a Recent variety symposium of some 6-800 varieties in 
even years. $3.00 per year. 
The Ohio State Gladiolus Society (OSGS) issues quarterly bulletins including 
its Test Garden Report (as successor to Valleevue) on gladiolus. $1.00 per year. The 
Ohio Society is the only one of about 12 state societies currently issuing regular 
publications affiliated with all three above. 
OSGS with NEGS $4.25. 
OSGS with NEGS and NAGC $5.75. 
with NAGC and CGS $4.50. 
involved if taken separately. 
OSGS with NAGC $2.50. OSGS with CGS $3.00. 
OSGS with NEGS and CGS $6.25. 
All four $7.75, a saving of $2.25 on the $10.00 total 
OSGS 
These various combinations are obtainable only through the Ohio society. 
Send your combination “subscription” to W. W. Wood, secretary, Rudolph, Ohio 
making checks or money orders payable to the Ohio State Gladiolus Society. 
You also secure regular membership rights. 
COLOR CHART 
The mounted Fischer Color Chart (108 
color blocks) is again available. Send 
$2.25 to New England Gladiolus Society, 
300 Massachusetts Ave., Boston 15, 
Mass. We no longer stock them. 
CLASSIFICATION INDEX 
A booklet of about 24 pages, identi- 
fying size, color, originator, year first 
available via U. S. price lists and num- 
ber of days to bloom. About July 1st 
send 15 cents to North American Glad- 
iolus Council, 314 Fountain St., Havre 
de Grace, Md. for latest edition. 
GeAeN DI D 
SELL OUTS. Last year we dipped 
into planting reserves so deeply to sat- 
isfy customers that we are unable this 
year to offer Wedgewood (K&M), Sky 
High, Havelock, Kittyhawk, Mauree 
Trevan, Strathnaver and Tunia’s Wizard. 
GLADIOLUS SEEDS. With green- 
house forcing conditions outdoors last 
summer, most of the newest varieties 
in small supply bloomed out early while 
we were busy at shows. No crosses were 
made and we have no seeds to offer. 
WHITE ELEPHANT SALE last 
season was too successful, too time con- 
suming and too many buyers encoun- 
tered too many sell outs. The current 
pre-catalog demand for more Dr. Pryor, 
Swing, Grace Moore, Ostrich Feather 
and a few more indicate they should 
have been further propagated for inclu- 
sion in our General List. No more White 
Elephant sales. 
When you note a Commercial “A” 
rating reported in this Guidebook, you 
may rest assured that, under normal 
growing conditions the variety will have 
a good stem, good flowerhead, passable 
to superior color, good propagation and 
no crooks. 
LEIF ERICSSON. Tom Manley de- 
clares Leif Ericsson to be the Top 
European variety grown in the 1952 
trials, both in Ohio and in Vermont. 
Tested three years running because of 
constantly increasing appreciation, this 
variety has now apparently achieved 
the all-time high rating awarded in the 
four years of trials. At least many of 
the growers may consider Leif Ericsson’s 
90, Exh. A, Com’l. AA to outpoint 
Catherine Beath which so far has the 
highest exhibition rating, namely 94, 
Exh. AA, Com’l. A. Apparently each of 
us must decide for himself. Kindly read 
our much expanded, detailed description. 
PROF GOUDRIAAN. Another retrial, 
primarily to determine accurately the 
eolor. Misled by the strength of the 
blend into cream in the throat, we de- 
clared it to be very light’ cream ap- 
proaching white. K & M obligingly 
changed their description “creamy white” 
to correspond. Now we apologize. All 
the judges giving the matter study are 
fully satisfied that the great preponder- 
ance of color is pure clean white, blend- 
ing into light cream in the throat. For 
two years it had looked definitely out 
of place with the cream in the shows and 
such a wonderful variety should not be 
permitted to undergo an artificial handi- 
cap. Fact is, we recommend it for still 
another trial on ground that it, too, may 
merit a Com’! AA rating. 
As orders come in we keep a running 
inventory of sales vs. stocks, in order to 
be aware when a size or a variety is 
sold out. About May 1st we abandon this 
safeguard because of press of shipping 
work and preparation for our own plant- 
ings. On these late orders it is often 
difficult to know offhand if an item 
will hold out to the order number until 
reached. 
