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edgwood Ou ery, © 1947) (70 days) 
(Lavender & Gold x Seedling) This utterly charming 
ruffled lavender pictured on page 29 can only be called 
a miracle of beauty. The heavy substance, gorgeous 
ruffling, chaste throat, and fine wiry stem make Wedg- 
wood the arrangement glad par excellence. 
Dr. Cason of Tennessee, who for several years wrote 
the annual comprehensive summary of varieties for the 
December Bulletin of the North American Gladiolus 
Council, in his summary of both 1949 and 1950 included 
Wedgwood in his “Ten Best Glads of the Year”. 
Even fanciers who prefer the giants fall for Wedg- 
wood! If you grow glads solely for the enjoyment of 
your family and friends or for cut-flowers, do not 
overlook Wedgwood. It opens ideally in water and 
cuts well from small and medium bulbs—an important 
New York: ‘‘This being a very 
hot summer and one of the worst 
I have experienced in ten years of 
growing glads as a hobby, many 
ordinarily fine varieties just were 
not up to par. _Your introductions 
for 1953 did very well, however; 
they seemed to be able to take it.” 
—Edward Drier. 
Manitoba: ‘“‘Magnet was really 
outstanding in spite of imperfect 
placement . . . My plant was 64 
inches high with 28 buds on the 
main stem and 13 out at one 
time.’—Mrs. Albert H. Miller. 
This “inverted hat” shaped 
bowl with its wide rim and de- 
pressed crown solies the prob- 
lem of using figurines that are 
not supposed to be in water. 
Our nice summer grouping is 
composed of dainty STARLET 
glads with white caladium leaves 
and three young birds to give 
life and action to the grouping. 
A bamboo base gives width. 
Note how the green markings 
in the foliage pick up the green 
of the bowl, thus making a more 
unified color grouping. 
ABOUT VASES 
The vases used by Mr. 
Starker in his arrange- 
ments were obtained at 
various florist shops and 
department stores with 
the exception of the one 
on page 28 and the in- 
verted “hat” on_ this 
page. These are hand- 
made vases made_ to 
order by the Ro-Mar 
Pottery of 309 N.W. 
Grayson Road, Portland 
1, Oregon. The price of 
the vase on page 28 is 
$8.50 and of the “hat”, 
$7.50. If interested in 
securing duplicates of 
either of these cases, or 
of other Ro-Mar vases, 
please write the Ro-Mar 
Pottery direct. 
trait of a good commercial. Wedgwood rated 98% in 
the latest symposium of the Canadian Gladiolus So- 
ciety—the highest rating of any variety. 
(L 2-.25; 10-1.00) (M 10-.76) 
(S 10-.40) (Blbts. Pkg. .30) 
“When you advertise Wedgwood as ‘queen of the 
early lavenders,’ you don't go far enough. I should 
like to add that she is queen of the glad patch.” 
—Lester W. Mills, Iowa. 
“I was very well satisfied with the corms you sent in 
my order last spring. I think that ‘Wedgwood’ and 
‘Friendship’ are two of the more beautiful glads and 
are very hard to beat as cut-flowers. They should be 
wonderful commercial var’s.” 
—C. R. Stoh, British Columbia. 
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