GLADIOLUS SEGETUM. 
corner, being ample in their dainty development, but not rampers or 
runners. 
Gladiélus ségétum and G. illyricus may be poked in anywhere 
on the upper slopes, but G. paluster and G. imbricatus are smaller and 
more jewel-like easy species that may have a more prominent place : 
the latter may be seen glowing among the orchises and milkwort 
and rough glorified herbage of every kind of lovely flower that fills 
the open slopes of coppice on the climb from Varenna to Esino on 
the Grigna, being only about 6 or 8 inches high, with beautiful flowers 
of an amaranth that glows like carbuncles amid the grass in the 
sunshine, but might be rather trying in more sophisticated places or less 
fierce illumination. It prolongs the season of the race by blooming 
into August, and does not hate damper places. As for the many that 
remain, they may be found in catalogues, and these will not easily 
produce a beauty to conquer G. primulinus, which in nature loves the 
drenching incessant spray of the Victoria Falls, but in the garden 
seems to put up with almost anything, yielding, too, a lovely race of 
hybrids as hearty and as happy as itself, and flowering likewise in 
latest summer. 
Glaucidium palmatum is a stout imperial Ranunculad from 
the woods of Japan, about 2 feet high or more, with ample and 
splendid foliage like that of a maple, at the top of which hang solitary 
flowers of satiny rich violet (and there is also G. violaceum). 
Glaucium.—Among the countless numbers of Horned Poppies, 
one is pre-eminently perennial and useful. This is G. grandiflorum 
from Eastern Europe and the Levant, which has silky very finely 
divided and beautiful lyrate leaves, with big blossoms in April, of a 
fulvous orange with violet blotches at the base. Hot sandy places. 
Globularia.—A group of useful if not brilliant little shrubby 
plants carrying larger or smaller balls of pale grey-blue fluff. They 
are all Southerners, and should have light soilon a warm slope. Rather 
large and coarse are G. trichosantha and G. nudicaulis, both of which 
send up 6-inch stems ending in a steely mop, but in the one case the 
stem is naked, while in the other it is set with leaves. These are not 
high-alpines, and thrive well in any sheltered and not too torrid place, 
being plants of the upper coppice, usually in the limestone ranges. 
Of the two, G. nudicaulis has the greater preference for half-shade, 
this being the plant that one so invariably passes through on one’s 
way to the alps, occupying the uppermost woodland zone in the 
coarse grass and sedge. G. Willkommii differs chiefly from G. tricho- 
santha in having but one nerve to its 10-inch leaves instead of five. 
The most generally useful, however, is the much smaller and neater 
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