GUIDEBOOK FOR 1954 
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578 SALMAN’S SENSATION (Salman) 
(our 7538 import release) LM. Clean, 
medium-deep blue violet, shaded deeper 
in lower throat and tinted lighter in 
upper throat. The tallest (70 inches) 
and largest (7 inches) blue extant, by 
a wide margin. 
The plants are heavy, flowerheads 
long, stems wiry and stiff, access to 
cutting, bud separation and placement 
all very good. Opens well and most 
of the spikes we grew held 6-6-6-18 
buds, though one held 8 open. 
The variety makes our “whopper” 
spike list with ease. 
O. S. G. S. (Ohio-Vt.) test ratings 
87-A-A. 
This variety sold like proverbial “hot 
cakes” last season. 
Its best win, 753, grand champion at 
Pa. (Pittsburgh) by Clifford D. Buell. 
Each L $1.50 M $1.25 S $1.00. 
278 TEHAMA (Diener) E. A small glad 
with 214-8-inch florets. Up to 8 open 
and 16 buds. Two things make it re- 
markable and outstanding. First its 
color is deep blue violet and it has 
won many awards for us in past years 
for “nearest to true blue.” Second, it 
is about the only full double row 
placement glad in the entire smal: 
decorative classification and its hy- 
bridizing value may be good accord- 
ingly. Propagation is medium to poor, 
but makes very healthy bulbs. Stock 
is extremely limited. 
Each M .75 S .50 Bits 5/.50. 
478 WEDGEWOOD (K & M) (our 752 
import release) M. Named in Holland 
at least in °47, if not before, so a 
change of name seems impossible to 
differentiate it from Fischer’s Wedge- 
wood, a 366 classification. K & M’s 
Wedgewood is the closest to true blue 
we have found in gladiolus. The color 
is deep and lively and has a small 
white dart. We all expect faults in 
what we call “blue” gladiolus and we 
have some minor ones here. The 
flowerheads are a bit short for its 
tall stems. K & M claim it can do 
some crooking but we have been grow- 
ing it three years under widely vary- 
ing conditions, still waiting for it to 
crook, so when and if it does we expect 
POLYNESIE 
it to be in but a very small percentage 
of the spikes. Plants and bulbs look 
healthy and stay healthy and propa- 
gation and commercial habits appear 
very good. You will enthuse over its 
color, much better blue than that of 
Pelegrina and Abu Hassan and the 
florets are larger, as well. 
Vv ratings, in 1949 report under title 
“Varieties Previously Tested” (page 
16 of our 1950 catalog) gave Wedge- 
wood (K & M) an overall rating of 
B in °47 and corroborated with an- 
other B in ’48. We would rate its color 
about 90. 
NET Prices, Each L .50 M .35 S .20 
Bits 5 /.25. 
