MINIATURE AND SMALL 
FLOWERING VARIETIES 
In this section I am glad to be able to list some fine 1953 introductions, as 
well as a good number of additional varieties of both recent introductions and old 
timers. 
You should be able to find most any color or type you wish to fill your every 
want, be it for exhibition, arrangements, corsages, table decorations, or something 
else. There are intensely ruffled ones, pointed petals, lacinated, face-ups, plain 
petals, and even multipetals. Every variety listed has its usefulness in one scheme 
or another. 
In attending shows during the past several years you have probably observed 
the ever increasing numbers of these small varieties, both in the exhibition and 
arrangement classes, showing their rapidly growing popularity. Many people are 
now beginning to realize how much more appropriate these are for the home, 
especially the small home, than the larger varieties and they are unsurpassed for 
table decorations. I have recently learned that there are those, who up until a short 
time ago would grow only the large exhtbition type, and were and still are top 
exhibitors in those classes, and had no use for the small type ones, are now 
growing the little ones for their own home and occassionally slipping one in on the 
show table. 
In connection with the exhibition classes at various shows, let me suggest 
to you, who are interested in showing the 100 size class, or real miniatures, that 
you get in touch with your show committee and have them make classes for the 
100s separate from the 200s, even though they may at first have to combine several 
colors in order to make good competition. This combining of colors will soon not 
be necessary when it is “known the 100s have their separate classes. Our Long 
Island show at Farmingdale does this and the 1951 show brought out an increase 
in number of entries over 1950, and in 1952 nearly every color class in the 100 
class was well represented. Very few shows do this but it is unfair to expect 
a face-up, which are mostly 100s, or any other 100, to compete with the larger 
Peggy Anns, Yellow Birds, Silversides, Statuettes, Smilettes, etc., which are the 
200s. 
[In this list of small flowering varieties I have listed a few of the 300 class 
officially classified as medium. These few varieties of 300s have the general 
characteristics of the small varieties but their slightly larger petal size has caused 
them to be classified 300 and even so many are no larger than some that are 
classified 200. Some of these have previously been classified 200 and visa versa, 
some that were previously in the 300 class are now in the 200. The classified lists as 
published by the New England Gladiolus Society and the North American Glad- 
iolus Council and which lists are official for shows held under their respective rules, 
differ on some varieties as to size and on others as to color. This can be accounted 
for by the fact that some varieties might grow a trifle larger in one locality than 
in another and as for color, some shades of some colors are so closé to some shade 
of another color that weather, soil and growing conditions in various sections of 
the country might make just enough difference in the color to make it appear 
different. 
Because of this difference in classification, and where there is a difference, 
I am listing both classification numbers according to their latest published lists. So 
if you plan to exhibit, you will have to inquire under the rules of what society the 
classifications are being used in order to make the proper entry. 
The larger varieties in the 300 classification will be found listed in the other 
section of this catalog. 
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