Plates 463, 464 



GLADIOLUS— MADAME DOMBRAIN AND 

 LEGOUVE. 



There does not seem to be any diminution of the interest 

 excited about these beautiful autumnal flowers, and although no 

 opportunity of exhibiting them presented itself during the past 

 autumn in the metropolis, except at one of the Tuesday meetings 

 of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, yet a considerable number 

 of flowers were then exhibited. We ourselves had the pleasure 

 of seeing the grand and unriviiUed collection of M. Souchet, 

 at Fontainbleau, and of seeing in large quantities those novelties 

 of which growers here have only one or two bulbs. 



The cultivation of the Gladiolus is so well understood that it 

 is unnecessary to add anything on that subject ; we may how- 

 ever say that we have found the plan which we adopted of 

 placing five or six inches of cow manure about eight inches 

 underneath the surface to have answered well, and that we shall 

 adopt that plan in future. The following notes on the varieties 

 of last season may be, we venture to think, depended on. 

 Michel Ange, is a grand flower of an entirely new character, 

 breaking away from the ordinary type of Gladiolus, and having 

 more of a lily-like character. Homere and Thomas Methven 

 are both flowers of a deep rosy violet, with the extremity of the 

 petals of a deeper shade. Marie Stuart is a beautifully-shaped 

 flower, with a light blash ground, and sUghtly tinted with rose 

 and carmine. Schiller, a light saffron ground, with carmine 



