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Title: Descriptive list
Identifier: descriptivelist1933cham (find matches)
Year: 1933 (1930s)
Authors: Champlain View Gardens; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Nursery stock Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Gladiolus Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Delphinium Vermont Burlington Catalogs
Publisher: Burlington, Vt. : Champlain View Gardens
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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pinks Emma is very fine but not so well known as it should be. Edith Robson, a lighter blotched pink, will prove one of the very best. Laidley has a color all its own. Very attractive. YELLOWS. There are a number of yellow varieties on the market but THE yellow is still to come. Don't really know which is the best one. There are a number of them entirely different some of which are better for certain uses and others for other purposes. My descriptions tell the story as well as I can tell it. Miss Bloomington is one of the very best early ones. Spray of Gold is entirely different and a very decorative variety. Little bit later than Miss Bloomington. Golden Dream is one of my favorites but does not stand long distance shipping as well as I would like. Have had fine reports from Loyalty. Golden Cup is a fine deep color. Tobersun one of the best. ORANGES. La Paloma for early and Orange Wonder for late are two of the best. Senorita is a very showy variety for landscape work. Gay Hussar is one of the best commercials. PURPLES. In light purple Charles Dickens is in a class by itself. Will entirely supersede Anna Eberius, Henry Ford and others of that color. Troubadour is about the best dark purple. Ravenna and Dominus are fine in the medium size dark purples. Purple Queen is one of the<best. BUFFS. 'There are not many varieties that are really buff. Apricot Glow comes near it and is a fine commercial and decorative variety. Wasaga is probably the most beautiful of all in the real buff color. It might be described as something like a ruffled and very much enlarged and glorified Apricot Glow. But that doesn't convey the real beauty of the flower. Hercules has come to the front a good deal in the last year. Has opened up more blooms at a time for me this year than last year and looks better than ever. Very massive. A CLASSIC. For the past few years I have had the following paragraph in my catalog. It has created so much comment from people who have reached one or another of the different stages of gladiolus growing that I am repeating it for the benefit of those who have not seen my catalog before. "There is a fascination about growing glads that becomes a hobby, then a craze. There are five stages of interest in growing "glads". First you just grow them as an amateur, same as you would any other flower. Then as your interest in them increases you become a "fan," then a "bug," then a "nut," then finally a "fiend." When you reach this final stage you are hopeless. You think of "glads" all day, dream of them at night, spend every available minute of your time in the garden, talk of them, visit the shows, read all the catalogs and spend all your money on them. You will look lovingly at the last flower in the fall, will handle over your bulbs in the winter time and will hardly be able to wait till you can lovingly plant the bulbs in the spring. From then till the first bloom appears is a period of happy anticipation. When finally the spikes of bloom begin to appear you are in heaven." STUDY YOUR GLADS. Every variety is a law unto itself. Different varieties need different treatment to get the most out of them. Some can stand more fertilizer than others and some can stand more dry weather than others. With some the blooms should be picked in the bud and opened inside while others open up better if left on the plant provided the sun is not too strong. Do not condemn a variety the first year you try it. It may be better the next year as quite often it is. And don't condemn a variety if you have tried it only from small bulbs. DO GLADS CHANGE COLOR? It is surprising how this age-old question keeps coming up every year. People tell me that they originally had a collection of glads with various colors and now all they have is one color, usually either red or yellow. They all changed color. Let me say now most positively that gladiolus, except for the very rare "sport", do not and cannot change color in spite of all that anyone may say. What does happen is that sometimes if you have a collection of various kinds 8

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