22-25 buds with heads up to 34 inches long. 
Blooms are well placed and strongly attached. 
It grows up to 51% feet tall with heavy but short 
foliage which allows cutting a long stem. It 
opens well from tight buds and holds its color 
to the tip. A top notch exhibition and com- 
mercial variety. Good propagator. 
At the 1953 Province of Quebec Show it won 
the American Home Achievement medal. Best 
seedling and first in 3 spike light yellow class. I 
saw this in Mr. White’s garden where it was 
very fine though the soil was hard and dry. 
Mr. White is the originator of Elizabeth the 
Queen, for years the most popular lavender. He 
is a perfectionist and this is the first variety he 
has released since Elizabeth the Queen. I am 
sure he would not introduce a variety that was 
not tops. 
$5.00 any size, 1 bulb and 10 bulblets $10.00. 
GROWER’S UNIT—2 L, 4 M, 8 S, 50 B: 
50.00. 
From TED WOODS 
Wax Canary 516 M This is a very 
beautiful variety from 
the originator of Rosita, Falcon, Connie G and 
other good ones. It is light salmon blending to 
deeper salmon toward the edge, with yellow 
toward the center, giving the general appearance 
of light buff: beautiful and distinctive. It has a 
long head with seven to eight open and twenty 
to twenty-two total. Plant gets up to five feet in 
height. Fluted and needlepoint with heavy tex- 
ture. Does not crook or burn. Good propagator. 
““Mike’’ Sherman has grown this for 3 years and 
recommends it highly. 
L 3.00, 10/24.00, M 2.00,10/16.00, S 1.00, 
10/8.00. Bulblets .75 each, 10/6.00, 100/48.00. 
GROWER’S UNIT—3 L, 3 M, 3S, 25 B: 21.50. 
GROWER’S UNIT—10 L, 10 M, 10 S, 150 
B: 100.00. Bulblets, pint 225.00, quart 400.00. 
STAGES of GLADIOLUS INTEREST Some years ago I dreamed up the following and every year 
am asked to repeat it in my catalog. 
“‘ There is a fascination about growing glads that becomes a hobby, then a craze. There are five stages of 
interest in growing ‘glads.’ First you just grow them as an amateur, same as you would any other flower. 
Then as your interest in them increases you become a ‘fan,’ then a‘ bug,’ then a‘nut,’ then finally a ‘fiend’. 
When you reach this final stage you are hopeless. You think of ‘ glads’ all day, dream of them at night, spend 
every available minute of your time tn the garden, talk of them, visit the shows, read all the catalogs and spend 
all your money on them. You will look lovingly at the last flower in the fall, will handle over your bulbs 
in the winter time and will hardly be able to wait till you can lovingly plant the bulbs in the spring. From 
then till the first bloom appears is a period of happy anticipation. When finally the spikes of blooms begin 
to appear you are in heaven.” 
In which class are you? I have been in the last class for years. A number have written me that they are 
tn a still more advanced stage, the ‘‘ Damn fool’’ stage. That must be about the height of something. 
BONUS BOOKS for varcer orders 
If your paid order for bulbs or bulblets amounts to $20.00 we will send 
you at no cost a copy of the $1.75 book by Rockwell, “THE GLADIOLUS,” 
giving information about growing and hybridizing, that is if you have not 
had it before and if you ask for it. See description on page 43. 
And as our big 1954 Special Bonus Book, if your paid order for bulbs or 
bulblets totals $30.00 or more we will include in your order at absolutely no 
extra charge, if you ask for it, a copy of the brand new book just published 
by Lee Fairchild at ‘$4.00 a copy—‘‘*THE COMPLETE BOOK OF THE 
GLADIOLUS.” See full description of this book on page 9. If you get this 
book, the Rockwell book is not given. 
