Plate 405. 

 GLADIOLUS, JULIA (KELWAY'S). 



For a flower which so especially delights in moisture as the 

 Gladiolus, the past season has necessarily been a most trying 

 one, the complaints concerning it having been universal as well 

 from the Continent as in England, — M. Souchet, of Fontaine- 

 bleau, the first grower in France, having pronounced his bloom 

 almost a total failure, while the paucity of blooms exhibited 

 at tin- various Autumn Exhibitions showed the unfavourable 

 nature of the season in England; the blooms exhibited 1>\ Mr. 

 Kelway, of Langport, in Somersetshire, were however an e\ 

 ception, and rarely, if ever, we believe have twelve finer flowers 

 than those exhibited by him at South Kensington been staged ; 

 amongst them was the fine flower so admirably rendered by 

 Mr. Andrews. 



We have bloomed in our own garden all the new varieties of 

 the past season, and although a very accurate judgment cannot 

 be formed, owing to the character of the season, yet we think 

 the following a pretty correct one: — Bernard de Jussieu, a new 

 colour, somewhat more intense than Stephenson, a kind of violet- 

 purple, certainly novel, but the spike is somewhat irregular and 

 the blooms far apart; Etendard, a verj tine spike and an ex- 

 cellent flower for exhibition; Eugene Scribe, a pretty, well- 

 formed flower, dedicate rose, flamed with carmine-red; La 

 Fiancee,* very beautiful white flower, with light bluish feathers ; 

 Mo art, a beautiful flower, large spike, lively rose, largely striped 

 with dark crimson; Norma, a beautiful white flower, sometimes 

 flamed with lilac; Princess Alice, a very beautiful light lilac 

 flower, quite novel; Rossini, a shaded amaranth; St minimis 

 (we have been disappointed in this (lower as yet ; the colour is 

 very beautiful and the spike long, but the lower petals are too 



