126 BULBS AND TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 
best advantage when cut and put in a vase, as the sun is 
liable to discolor the flowers. 
Mme. Monneret.—A clear, delicate rose, short 
spike, very fine for a late bloomer. 
Meyerbeer.—One of the very best, flowers well 
arranged, large, spike long. Color crimson-scarlet flamed 
with vermilion. 
Napoleon III.—Fine scarlet, heavy, with stripe 
on the lower petals. 
Nestor.—Light yellow ground, with darker yellow 
stripes and markings. 
President Lincoln.—American ; blush-white back- 
ground, with the edges of the petals suffused with bright 
rose, the lower divisions heavily blotched and finely lined 
with crimson. Flowers very large, and well arranged in 
a long spike. Not a showy variety, but remarkably 
pleasing. 
Romulus.—Very showy, fine dark red, with pure 
white blotch and markings. 
Snow White.—American ; the nearest pure white 
variety yet offered for sale. Under ordinary circum- 
stances nearly the entire flower is a perfect paper-white, 
with a slight cream shade on lower half of the lower 
petal. The spikes are of fair size, flowers well arranged. 
Schiller.—Sulphur, with large carmine blotch and 
markings. 
Shakespeare.—lIvory white ground, suffused car- 
mine-rose, large rosy blotch on lower division; early 
and constant. One of the best. 
The Lemoine Hybrids.—The birth of the Le- 
moine Hybrids marked a new era in Gladiolus culture ; 
the hybrids of Gandayensis and their offspring had, 
seemingly, reached their summit of perfection. Genius, 
like a vine without support, was swaying to and fro for 
a subject upon which it could bestow its limitless treas- 
ures of grace and beauty, and keep alive the warm inter- 
