Chris Whitehouse wrote: “There is an American Gladiolus Society publication from the 1930s, which lists a 'Halley' as being a Grandiflorus type having salmon-pink flowers with "carmine on napthalene markings" (not sure I know what colour naphthalene is). However, there is clearly another 'Halley' registered in 1986 with the KAVB by J. van Winsen, a nanus type with the description in the register is as follows "Flowers primrose-yellow 4D, on inner petals naples-yellow blotch 18D with carmine-rose vein and cardinal-red 53C blotches in throat." Presumably, that is the one you have got?” Thanks, again, Chris. Now we’re getting somewhere. The plant I have is, as you suspected, the one registered as a nanus type by van Winsen. I think it was a mistake to register this as a nanus type, but I’ll let someone else take up that issue. Here in the garden it grows beside the old nanus cultivar ‘Elvira’, and other than both being Gladiolus, they don’t have much in common. I wonder if it was registered as a nanus type to get around the inconvenient fact that a large flowered type (which almost certainly does not still exist) had already been registered as ‘Halley’? Van Winsen’s ‘Halley’ is a very lovely plant, graceful and of very subtle coloration. The buds are particularly nice because of their soft butter-yellow color. One comical aside: deer visited the garden last night and cropped several of the glads, including some ‘Halley’. I’m happy to have gotten my photos when I did. Jim McKenney jimmckenney@jimmckenney.com Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, 39.03871º North, 77.09829º West, USDA zone 7 My Virtual Maryland Garden http://www.jimmckenney.com/ BLOG! http://mcwort.blogspot.com/ Webmaster Potomac Valley Chapter, NARGS Editor PVC Bulletin http://www.pvcnargs.org/ Webmaster Potomac Lily Society http://www.potomaclilysociety.org/