MISS PRECISION (Pierce '55)—362 M 
(Crinkles x Black Opal) 
Here is a glad that has made us proud yet broken 
our heart. Its rich medium rose color, its precise for- 
mal arrangement of slightly ruffled florets with 7-9 
cpen and as many showing color on spikes of 20 to 22 
buds is enough to gladden the heart of any originator, 
but what saddens us is that this fine variety is just a 
little too big to be classified as a small type. Florets 
run trom 3% to 4 inches across. 
In Our breeding work we sometimes find it necessary 
to use medium size glads as one of the parents because 
there isn’t aways a small 
type available to bring 
out desired colors or 
other attributes. In doing 
this the hybridizer runs 
the risk of generating 
some over-size seedlings, 
and this is exactly what 
happened to us. 
We do not dislike large 
glads, and we have no 
quarrel with those who 
are devoted to them, but 
our policy the last few 
Veatsmilas soecehm CO Spe- 
cialize in the miniatures 
and small types. Still, we 
could not’ bring  our- 
selves to discard Miss 
Precision, so we regis- 
tered her in 1952. We 
have been growing her 
and showing her ever 
since, but until now, 
could not make up our 
minds to digress from 
our policy of cataloging 
100/200’s only. Just as we 
stick by our children 
who sometimes do not 
turn out as we planned, 
so have we decided to 
make the best of Miss 
Precision and allow her 
her debut this year. 
We have been urged by 
several fanciers whom 
we have permitted to 
grow her or who have 
seen her at the shows to 
introduce her to _ the 
gladiolus fraternity, and 
when she scored 89 at 
the Chicago show in 1954 
to take the Hippel-Con- 
nell placque for the high- 
est scoring seedling in 
the show we finally relented. 
While we have been trying to make up our minds 
what to do we have built up a good stock of this 
glad so that we can introduce it at a very nominal 
figure, and we are confident that it will please you 
and fill a vacancy for you in a size and color class 
that needs it badly. 
Any size bulb $2.00 
Bulblets 30c each, 10/$2.00 
1 bulb and 10 bulblets $3.50 
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Miss Precision 
