At Le Roy, Ill. 
Best Miniature in Show — Ito 
Best Small Giad in Show —Twinkles 
Summit Gardens’ entries of Ito and Twinkles, 
winners of Best Miniature and Best Small 
respectively at the LeRoy, Iliinois show. 
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The list of Miniature and small type glads which fol- 
lows is what I term the best list of Select Varieties to be 
found in any one catalog. It is not the longest list, for 
there may be cne or two others who catalog more varie- 
ties in an attempt to impress folks with the extensive- 
ness of their listings of little glads. 
It is my contention that the best service can be ren- 
dered to my customers by carefully testing and apprais- 
ing all the available varieties in my personal garden, 
screening out the unworthy ones and listing only those 
that I can honestly recommend as deserving. To this end 
I have devoted countless hours of time and a great deal 
of money by seeking out nearly extinct older varieties 
and acquiring all the new introductions each year. 
The North American Gladiclus Council’s 1952 Class- 
ification of varieties listed 281 varieties of Miniature and 
Small glads, including about 40 face-ups. I do not list 
face-ups because most of them are so short and open 
so few florets that they have practically no value as 
show subjects and can be used only for limited phases 
of make-up work. I try to list in the neighborhood of 
120 varieties of the ccnventional 100/200’s, which figure 
represents half the varieties now known to commerce. 1 
assure you that to list more than 50% of the existing 
varieties would entail cluttering up the catalog with va- 
rieties I could not sincerely recommend and which, if you 
invested your money, time and garden space in would 
be an imposition on your resources that would invoke 
your criticism and mistrust. Perhaps not for the most, 
but certainly for the best, you can look to and rely on 
Summit Gardens when it comes to Miniature & Small 
Type Glads. 
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