Rita Millard Holds an Armful of SWEET SIXTEEN, the 
Pure-pink Sport of Beauty’s Blush. Beside Her in the Row 
Is a Spike of Steeple-flowered MOTHER FISCHER. 
x *& &k & (400) (Fisch- 
Beauty’s Blus omicure ae Nye ae 
days) (Margaret Beaton x Choice Seedling) It’s not 
often that a glad is tops in both beauty and perform- 
ance. Too often the most beautiful ones are not the 
easiest growers, or, if easily grown, their florets are so 
heavy they cannot stand the rough handling involved 
in shipment. Similarly, the varieties that ship the best 
are often a trifle on the plain side in the eye of the 
fancier. So it is a special pleasure to find a few glads 
like Beauty’s Blush that are both supremely beautiful 
and commercial aces. Beauty’s Blush is a sparkling, 
frosty white exquisitely and faintly blushed a cool 
rose-pink. A touch of cream warms the throat. The 
whole effect is as delicate as the blush on a young 
girl’s cheek, as exquisite as the tint of sunset on 
sparkling, new-fallen snow. From seven to nine 
serenely carved, round, plain-petalled florets are open 
at once on wonderfully stretchy spikes, regularly five 
feet tall. Florists love Beauty’s Blush because the 
pink, white, and cream in it echo the tones of deeper 
pinks, rose shades, and snowy white, making this the 
ideal “blender” when the buying public seeks the 
usual variety of colors. When used alone, Beauty’s 
Blush is truly “the pastel of pastels”. Make this one 
of the cornerstones of your glad collection. 
(L 2-.25; 10-1.00) (M 10-.70) 
(S 10-.40) (Blbts. Pkg. .25) 
“Year after year Beauty’s Blush has been a model of 
everything a glad should be in the garden.” 
—John Zweifel, Wisconsin. 
= xk kk 6376) “(Kilecene 
Better Times +4 (3% oes 
(Said to be derived from Allegro x Max Reger) 
Here is what I truly consider the most beautiful so- 
called “blue” glad. Actually it is a light violet with a 
deeper violet spearhead tipped with creamy-white in 
the throat. Seen in the shade or at twilight when the 
blueness of objects becomes more intense because of a 
shifting of the “rods and cones” in the retina, Better 
Times looks as blue as a blue iris. Its blue-violet color 
is unusually smooth unlike that of the larger and bet- 
ter-known Ravel. This glad sells so well I have 
trouble retaining adequate propagating stock. 
(L 1-.25; 10-2.00) 
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