25 for $2.00 
25 for $1.40 
25 for $.80 
10 for $1.00 
10 for $.70 
10 for $.40 
2 for $.25 
3 for $.25 
5 for $.25 
Large 
Medium 
ANY ONE 
VARIETY Spal 
(not mixed) 
Bulblets 
VELVET MANTLE 454 (Fischer) M_ Rich 
velvety royal maroon red with silken sheen. 
Opens 9 round flat open florets on a tall spike. 
One of the best. No small. bulbs this year. 
VIOLET DICKINSON SOls) (Barrett) a Wi 
Ruffled white with delicate violet feather. A 
really fine variety that doesn’t have the ob- 
jectionable magneta line in the throat that some 
whites have. Opens 8-10 beautiful blooms. 
VOODOO 486 (Kadel) M _ Distinctive and 
beautiful smoky with stippling of bronze and 
plum. 7 5’ needlepoint blooms open. Never have 
enough to go around tho it is a good propagator. 
WAYFARER 460 (Butt) M Light rose blending 
to a creamy white throat. Opens 6-8 5’’ blooms 
with formal placement. Fine cut flower variety. 
WEDGWOOD 366 (Fischer) EM Beautiful 
lively shade of lavender with cream throat. Opens 
4 5”’ waxy blooms. One of the most beautiful 
varieties with a charm all its own. Wonderful 
for arrangements and high class floral work. 
W.H. HOSMER 466 (Hatch) M Rose tinged 
with lavender. Bright clear shade with large 
25 cents per package of 50 or more. 
creamy throat. Opens 8-12 with 19-21 buds. 
Regular placement and good attachment. Seems 
to be getting better every year. 
WHIUITE CHALLENGE 501 (Arnett) M White 
flushed pink with small rose feather in the 
throat. Opens many large blooms of good texture 
on a tall straight plant. 
WHITE GODDESS 500 (Roberts) EM Tall 
strong growing creamy white. Opens up to 9 
heavily ruffled blooms on a long head. Have seen 
this 6 feet tall with flower heads nearly 3 feet 
long. This is a grand variety and I suggest it as 
a substitute for Leading Lady where that doesn’t 
do well. 
ZEPHYR 443 (Butt) EM Deep fresh pink with 
reddish throat mark. Opens 8-9 well placed and 
attached blooms. Color varies somewhat but 
always good. A few spikes make an armful. 
ZUNI 484 (Mitsch) L An old smoky variety 
that is still one of the best and very popular. 
Opens 10 massive ruffled blooms on a long head. 
Color is salmon and dark slate with an orangy 
feather. No small this year. 
All-America Gladiolus Selections 
Look for Them in 1955! 
Like the rose people who select the finest new roses for special national 
honors each year, a group of twenty-six leading glad growers and judges 
organized in January 1953 the ALL-AMERICA GLADIOLUS SELEC- 
TIONS to choose and publicize the outstanding glads among each season’s 
prospective introductions. 
Many seedlings are submitted by hybridizers from all over the United 
States and Canada. These seedlings are all grown under code numbers in 25 
trial grounds with a wide geographical distribution so as to take in many 
kinds of growing conditions. 
The winning seedlings are selected in January but because of propagation 
requirements are not publicly announced till the following January. 
Watch for the announcement of these ALL-AMERICA WINNERS. They 
will be described and pictured in color in this catalog. 
Do not order from this catalog after August 1954. It becomes obsolete then. 
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