. Descriptive list. Nurseries (Horticulture) Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Nursery stock Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Gladiolus Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Delphinium Vermont Burlington Catalogs. ones with the prims and securing prim, grands. They are not hooded and have the large flowers of the grandiflorus varieties and much better color and form. In hybridizing glads, like anything else you must use good stock to breed from. You can't just take ordinary varieties that have some good qualities and a lot of bad ones, mate them together and secure ou
. Descriptive list. Nurseries (Horticulture) Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Nursery stock Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Gladiolus Vermont Burlington Catalogs; Delphinium Vermont Burlington Catalogs. ones with the prims and securing prim, grands. They are not hooded and have the large flowers of the grandiflorus varieties and much better color and form. In hybridizing glads, like anything else you must use good stock to breed from. You can't just take ordinary varieties that have some good qualities and a lot of bad ones, mate them together and secure outstanding seedlings. You should use varieties that have unusual qualities or that have the power of transmitting their good qualities. Occasionally, like in breeding cattle, you find a variety that has some good qualities but other bad ones that will transmit the good ones to a much larger degree than its poor ones. Such a variety is Apricot Glow. This variety has proven to be one of the very best varieties to cross with the large flowered varieties. Mr. Palmer has a large number of seedlings of outstanding quality in which he used Apricot Glow as a parent. Emile Aubrun is another one. Minuet, Pfitzer's Triumph have also proven good parents. Don't save the self-pollenated seed and expect you are going to get anything very good as the good ones don't come that way. You have got to hand-pollenate. Do not plant bulbs in the shade. They like full sun all day long. I know there are times when you have to plant where there is a little shade but give them all the sun you possible can. If they get shade even three hours a day they will not do nearly so well as they would where they have full sun. Also do not plant near bushes or where the roots of bushes or trees sap the ground of moisture. Glads need a lot of moisture while growing and bushes always send out roots quite a little distance, especially in a dry place. The drier it is the farther the roots will go looking for moisture and
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