VALENTINE (Larus ’52) 421 (M). Showy salmon-orange with a big bold 
blotch of orange scarlet, This was really outstanding in our garden last 
summer, with its very large, many-open florets arrayed on tall stems. If 
Sundown is still a little too high-priced for your budget, grow Valentine. 
They are distinct enough that you will eventually want both. Valentine 
has a unique bluish tint on the slightly raised lip-petal midribs. 
L .60, M .45, S .30, Bulblets 4-.25, 10-.50, 50-$2.00. 
VANISLE (G. R. White ’52) 590 (EM). Its lovely orchid-like flowers make 
Vanisle perhaps the prettiest of all the smokies in individual floret, Its 
color is most unusual, too, being a sort of mulberry with tan shadings, nicely 
offset by a little patch of white and a plum-colored “tongue” lip-petal 
effect. The rather narrow, pointed petals are so very heavily fluted and 
crimped that some appear to be laciniated. Does not make a very good 
exhibition spike, but grand for unusual arrangements. We like to grow 
Vanisle just for the pure pleasure it brings to us and the friends who 
admire it in our garden. 
M .75, S .50. 
VIOLET CHARM (Jack ’53) 476 (EM). A medium bluish-lavender or light 
heliotrope with a dark violet arrow tipped cream. Its rather unusual color 
makes it difficult to classify; it comes close to being a light lavender. A 
good glad, in any event, and one which most everyone admires. It opens 
7 or 8 medium-large florets in perfect placement on a tall, stretchy spike. 
L .60, M .40, S .20, Bulblets 4-.20, 10-.40. 
VISION (Roberts 53) 331 (M). A perfect spike of Vision is indeed a sight 
to behold, with its 10 to 12 open flowers on a long spike of 22-26 buds. 
This sister-seedling of Delight has somewhat smaller, rounder florets; not 
quite as heavily ruffled but with more of them open at a time. Color, a 
soft light salmon with large creamy center. Vision should do plenty of 
winning at the shows in years to come. 
L $1.50, M $1.00, S.50, Bulblets .20 each, 10-$1.50. 
VOO-DUN-IT (Kadei 751) 490 (EM). Very much out-of-the-ordinary is this 
seedling of Voodoo, with its ground color of light mahogany bronze and 
throat of creamy yellow. The form is unusual too, the rather narrow petals 
being heavily waved; the top petal being especially long and up-flaring, A 
novelty that is as exotic in appearance as any orchid. Grand for unusual 
effects, or any arrangement where a touch of the bizarre is needed. The 
informal placement of the flowers does not make a typical show spike, 
however. Quite a good propagator. 
L $1.00, M .75, S .50, Bulblets 4-.25, 10-.50, 100-$3.50. 
WELCOME (Roberts 754) 486 (VE). One of the very first glads to bloom, 
this vies with Early Red as earliest of the reds and scarlets. Welcome 
opens a long ribbon of beautiful clear scarlet flowers on a spike of good 
height. We find an occasional crooked stem, not many, An excellent pro- 
ducer of large bulblets which nearly all bloom, and grow into fine bulbs 
of good size. If you grow for the early cutflower market, you should get 
a start of Welcome. It opens unusually well in water, holding 8 or 9 
florets open nearly to the tip. 
L $2.00, M $1.50, S $1.00, Bulblets .20 each, 10-$1.50, 50-$6.00. 
WHITE CLOUD (Roberts 752) 500 (EM). It will be hard to improve on the 
snowy whiteness and delightful ruffling of White Cloud. Floret attachment 
is not perfect and it could stand a few more inches in flowerhead length 
instead of so much in the stem; however as it is the spikes usually reach 
shoulder-height in our plantings. It opens 6 or 7 nicely rounded, very heavily 
ruffled flowers at a time. You will enjoy growing this whitest of all white 
glads; it’s about the most beautiful, too. “Most Ruffled” award at 1954 
Eastern Oregon show. 
L $1.00, M .75, S .50, Bulblets 4-.25, 10-.50, 100-$4.00. 
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