QUALITY GLADS (Cont.) 
REGINA (520) Palmer 1953 (80). A fascinating, 
very rich and beautiful blending of apricot and 
deep yellow with a small scarlet blotch. Up to 
8 ruffled, needlepoint florets open at once. Very 
firm substance. Highly rated. 
ROSARIO (461) Fischer 1953 (80). A light rose 
with a deeper rose blotch. Consistently produces 
No. 1 spikes with 8-10 florets open at once. Fine 
show flower and will make a grand commercial. 
*ROSE CHARM (360) Fischer 1948 (65). Bright, 
clear rose. Up to 10 open on tall, slender spikes. 
Fine, early cutter. 
RUFFLED EBONY (454) Fischer 1953 (85). Bril- 
liant, intensely ruffled black-red. Very vigorous 
grower that opens 6-7 florets of very firm tex- 
ture. 
SALMAN’S SENSATION (578) Salman 1953 (90). 
This looks like the finest deep blue yet intro- 
duced. 7-8 6-inch florets open out of a total of 
20-22 buds. Tall, vigorous grower with long flower- 
heads. Formal spikes. 
SHALLIMAR (362) Marek 1952 (75). Almost iden- 
tical with Chamouny in color but a much better 
grower with long flowerheads and more open 
florets. Wins consistently for us. 
*SHERWOOD (570) Pruitt 1948 (80). Lovely, rich 
reddish-purple. Fine commercial and home gar- 
den variety. 
SNOWCLAD (400) Harris 1953 (80). A tall, straight 
white with up to 10 florets open on a 26-inch 
flowerhead. Easy grower, making ideal spikes. An 
American Home Achievement Award winner in 
1952. 
SPARKLING EYES (401) Jack 1953 (85). Fine, tall 
white with violet-purple throat markings. Up to 
8 open on tall spikes. Florets are ruffled and re- 
curved. Have had many outstanding reports on 
this. 
*SPIC & SPAN (444) Carlson 1946 (80). The well 
known exhibition and commercial deep pink. One 
of the very best. 
*SPOTLIGHT (413) Palmer 1944 (80). Medium yel- 
low with a red blotch. Our strain of this is healthy 
and vigorous. ; : 
STORMY WEATHER (480) Barrett 1947 (82). Vig- 
orous, dusty pale lavender, easily opening 8 flo- 
rets on tall spikes. One of the best smokies. 
*SUNDAY BEST (466) Pletcher 1950 (85). Light 
lavender-rose blending into a cream throat. Flo- 
rets very tightly attached on tall spikes. 
SWEET SIXTEEN (442) Fischer 1951 (80). Lovely, 
pastel pink. Seven wide-open florets on long, 
slender spikes. 
TERRIFIC (310) Wilson 1950 (70). Clear, canary 
yellow with 8-10 florets open at once. Tall, straigh 
spikes. : 
THE RAJAH (570) Jack 1951 (88). Rich, beauti- 
fully ruffled purple. Eight florets open on long, 
stretchy spikes. 
THUNDERBOLT (454) Pierce 1953 (87). A very 
deep maroon with 7 florets open on average 
spikes. Heavy substance but will sunburn in ex- 
treme heat. An American Home Achievement 
Award winner in 1952. 
*TIVOLI (440) K. & M. 1947 (90). Wonderful, clear 
rose-pink. Up to 8 open on long, heavy spikes. 
Very fine. 
TOMAHAWK (436) Graff 1952 (85). A fine scarlet 
with 8 lightly ruffled and recurved florets open 
at once. Easy grower and fine in every way. 
TRAVELER (460) Torrie-Flad 1952. The Spic & 
Span of the rose-pink class! The most beautiful 
rose-pink color with 10-11 florets open on a 20- 
bud spike. We entered 7 spikes of Traveler in the 
1954 Kentucky show, four of which had been on 
cold storage for six days. The results were: Best 
spike in Open class; Best Recent Introduction; 
Best 400 size in the show; Champion 5 spikes; and 
Grand Champion of the show. Every spike was 
identical with 10 open florets and 20 buds. This 
will go clear to the top, both as a show flower and 
commercial. 
TYRONE (466) Deam 1952 (80). Orchid-lavender 
shading to white on the lower petals. Opens 8 
recurved, pointed florets on a tall, formal spike. 
Amazing show record. A grand cutflower. 
VALENTINE (421) Larus 1951 (90). A large salmon- 
orange with deep orange blotch. Massive spikes. 
Very striking. 
VIOLET CHARM (476) Jack 1953 (85). Light violet 
with a deep violet arrow on a cream throat. Up 
to 10 open on tall, outstanding, exhibition spikes. 
Everyone who sees this raves about it. 
*WEDGWOOD (366) Fischer 1947 (80). Clear, blue- 
lavender with cream throat. Opens 6-7 beauti- 
fully ruffled florets. 
WESTERNER (530) Jack 1952 (85). Huge, light 
salmon-pink with 7-8 florets open at once on long 
spikes. Vigorous. Easy grower. 
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WHITE CLOUD (500) Roberts 1952 (85). An ex- 
quisite, snow white with ruffled, crimped flo- 
rets. Opens 5-6 huge, crisp florets of fair attach- 
ment. Undoubtedly the most beautiful white ever 
introduced. 
*WHITE)GODDESS (500) Roberts 1948 (80). Heavily 
ruffled white with a cream throat. Up to 8 open 
on massive: Spikes. 
WHITE SISTER (401) Marek 1954 (68). Orchid type 
florets make this a glad of real beauty. It opens 
4-6 pure white florets with the bottom petals 
tinged a lemon yellow. Its fast propagation per- 
mits a reasonable price. 
WHITE STAR (400) Marek 1951 (65). Clean ivory- 
white with 7 recurved florets open on average 
spikes. Very outstanding in our field 
WHITE SYMPHONY (500) Webb 1951 (85). A very 
large snow white that can be grown to huge pro- 
portions. Up to 8 ruffled florets open at once on 
long flowerheads. 
WHITE WEDWOOD (300) Allen 1954. A beauti- 
fully ruffled white with a slight cream throat. 
Opens 6-7 wide-open informal type florets on a 
flowerhead of 16-18 buds. Wonderful in arrange- 
ments. 
ALL-AMERICA 
GLADIOLUS SELECTIONS 
The All-America Gladiolus Selections was organ- 
ized in January, 1953. The purpose of this organi- 
zation is to stimulate the production of outstanding 
varieties and give the best varieties nation-wide 
publicity, thereby spreading the popularity of 
glads generally. 
The 30 All-America Trial Grounds are located 
throughout the U. S. and Canada. To date 57 seed- 
lings, all grown under code number, have been 
submitted for test. At the January, 1955, meeting 
of the All-America Judges (in connection with the 
NAGC convention in East Lansing, Mich) they will 
select by secret ballot any of the seedlings that 
were submitted for test that they deem sufficiently 
outstanding to deserve “All-America” honors. 
Since the date of our first Directors’ meeting we 
have had to revise upwards the quantity of bulbs 
that we anticipate will be needed when an All- 
America winner is announced. This sharp increase 
in anticipated demand has caused the delay of 
public announcement of the All-America winners 
until such time as sufficient stock has been propa- 
gated, probably in 1956. 
Watch for the first All-America winners! 
