make it as cool a place as possible, usually just off cellar bottom in the coldest part 
of your cellar, as I would not store directly on cellar bottom, because of possible 
dampness. By all means do not let them freeze. 
MINIATURE AND SMALL 
FLOWERING VARIETIES 
Including a few select 300 class or medium varieties plus some unusual ones such as 
multipetals and dragons. 
You should be able to find most any color or type you wish to fill your every 
want, be it for exhibition, arrangements, corsages, table decorations, or something 
else. There are intensely ruffled ones, pointed petals, lacinated, face-ups, plain 
petals, and even multipetals. Every variety listed has its usefulness in one scheme 
or another. 
Try making an arrangement out of the face-ups by taking a small, rather 
low container and using a small section of a spike with two or three open florets 
and another one or two buds and making the stem end just a bit longer than 
enough to reach the bottom of the container. Then stick a dozen or so of these 
sections of spikes into the container, depending on the size of it, and you will 
have something beautiful. Piccolo is especially good used this way. Red Button 
is good especially when used with Piccolo or white. And the whites and pinks are 
good when used by themselves. 
The culture of small varieties is very easy. They can be planted closer 
together than the large ones and so get more out of your space. They do not 
have to be planted quite so deep and do not require staking. And then too, a great 
many varieties produce two or more blooms from one bulb when large size bulbs 
are planted. 
In attending shows during the past several years you have probably observed 
the ever increasing numbers of these small varieties, both in the exhibition and 
arrangement classes, showing their rapidly growing popularity. Many people are 
now beginning to realize how much more appropriate these are for the home, 
especially the small home, than the larger varieties and they are unsurpassed for 
table decorations. There are those, who up until a short time ago would grow 
only the large exhibition type, and were and still are top exhibitors in those classes, 
and had no use for the small type ones, are now growing the little ones not only 
for their own home but for the show table as well. 
In connection with the exhibition classes at various shows, let me suggest 
to you, who are interested in showing the 100 size class, or real miniatures, that 
you get in touch with your show committee and have them make classes for the 
100s separate from the 200s, even though they may at first have to combine several 
colors in order to make good competition. This combining of colors will soon not 
be necessary when it is known the 100s have their separate classes. Our Long Island 
show at Farmingdale has always made separate classes for the 100s and at the 
1953 and 1954 shows nearly every color class was well represented. Very few 
shows do this but I am glad to say that the ones that do are on the increase. It is 
quite unfair to expect the face-ups, which are mostly 100s, or any other 100, to 
compete with the larger Peggy Anns, Yellow Birds, Silversides, Statuettes, 
Smilettes, etc., which are the 200s. And furthermore the staging of the 100s and 
200s separately improve the appearance of the show. In 1954 the Pennsylvania 
Gladiolus Society staged a very successful “All Small Glad Show”. If you are 
interested in winning the Sweepstakes in any show, just try exhibiting a good 
collection of the small ones. Last year | won sweepstakes at both the New Jersey 
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