the past five years and those that we grew some 7 to 8 years ago. Those early seedlings 
were scarcely up to the quality of the varieties then in common use, and all were 
finally discarded. Now we find that the reverse is true. Most of the seedlings as 
they bloom for us are very attractive in form and color and while certainly few of 
them should ever be introduced because they lack distinctive originality, nevertheless 
for the amateur and the novice most of them surpass the older named varieties still very 
much in commerce. 
The probable answer for this consistent high quality is the fact that for the past 
several years we have had available as seed parents the cream of the new introduc- 
tions both from America and overseas. And we have used only those that we con- 
sidered the very finest of the most recent introductions — and with such parentage we 
could scarcely expect too many inferior flowers. Many that we have used, we know 
were the results of many years of line breeding — and while our own seedlings are not 
the result of using line-bred strains to achieve definite results, we are finding by our 
own more or less haphazard crossings (and in many cases open pollenization in which 
we depend upon the known qualities of the female parent to give us some interesting 
progeny) that we are obtaining glads that even surprise us with the uniformity with 
which they produce fine-flowering bulbs of vigor and stamina. Please do not infer that 
we suggest that you follow our methods, as planned crosses, and careful records are 
much to be preferred and more certain to bring you closer to a goal of the creation 
of a flower which will have the size, form and color that you are striving to attain. 
Our seedlings are purely an avocation for which we have a minimum of time, and with 
us the very uncertainty of the bloom type that the seedlings will give us only adds zest 
to the enterprise. We suggest that you start to play with at least a small quantity — 
you will thoroughly enjoy it. 
EXPLANATION OF CODE PRECEDING VARIETY NAMES 
The first three numerals classify the flower as to size and color (except in 80 class, 
an odd ending digit number indicates that floret has conspicuous deeper throat mark- 
ings.) Following the dash(—) the last two digits give average time to bloom from plant- 
ing of large size bulbs. 
SIZE CLASSIFICATION COLOR CLASSIFICATION 
100 Miniature Glads — Florets under 2%’ 40 Pink 40 (Light) without markings 
200 Small Glads — 2¥2” through 344” Pink 41 (Light) with conspicuous markings 
300 Medium Glads — 3%” through 436” Pink 42 (Deep) 
400 Large Glads — 4%” through 5%” 50 Red 50 (Light) 
500 Largest Glads — 5¥2” or larger Red 52 (Deep) 
Red 54 (Black) 
COLOR CLASSIFICATION 60 Rose 60 (Light) 
00 White 00 wthout conspicuous markin¢ Rose 62 (Deep) 
White 01 with conspicuous marking Lavender 66 
Cream 06 70 Purple 70 
10 Yellow 10 (Light) Violet 76 (Light) 
Yellow 12 (Deep) Violet 78 (Deep) 
Buff 16 80 Smoky Shades 
20 Orange 20 (Light) Smoky 82 (Orange Smoky) 
Orange 22 (Deep) Smoky 83 (Salmon Smoky) 
Orange 24 (Red Orange) Smoky 84 (Pink Smoky 
30 Salmon 30 (Light) Smoky 85 (Red Smoky) 
Salmon 32 (Deep) Smoky 86 (Lavender Smoky) 
Scarlet 36 90 Any Other Color 
