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Siddons, *Mrs. Standish, Mowbray More, Nomia, Oberon, *Our Little 

 Lucy, Poniatowski, Prime Minister, *Randle Jackson, Reine Victoria, 

 Reverend Joshua Dix, Robin Hood, Rose of England, vSamuel Weymouth, 

 Scottish Chief, Senior Jackson, Sir Isaac Newton, *Sir James Clarke, 

 Sultane, Susan Ingram, The Cahph, The Cardinal, The Colonel, The 

 Dauphin, The Ensign, Thurza, Tom Moore, Viola, Whipper-in, WilHam 

 iMenzies. 



These were excellent exhibition varieties, equal if not superior to those 

 sent out in France; but it seems that the conditions were not so favorable 

 for their multiplication, and thus the varieties were never generally dis- 

 tributed and consequently in a few years were lost. Later Mr. Standish 

 moved to Ascot, where he again took up the breeding of gladioh, pro- 

 ducing some brenchleyensis-cruentus hybrids. 



Meanwhile J. Sladden produced some seedlings of merit — Hector, 

 Lord Clyde, Prospero, and Volunteer — which won the first prize of the 

 Royal Horticultural Society in 1863. Although the efforts of Standish 

 served to promote to a certain extent the popular interest in gladioli 

 through exhibitions, there appeared simultaneously with him one who 

 may be regarded as the Souchet of England, James Kelway. Kelway, 

 establishing himself at Langport under different conditions and with 

 a keen judgment of the requirements demanded of new seedlings, was 

 successful; and his successors have maintained the high reputation 

 of the firm for high-grade gladioli. Kelway sent out his first varieties 

 in 1866. 



The species purpureo-auratus , introduced in 1870, was found to be 

 perfectly hardy at Nancy, France. Victor Lemoine discovered after 

 a test of two or three years that original corms had multipHed so as to 

 form good-sized clumps. The varieties of G. gandavensis had not proved 

 successful in the soil at Nancy, and so, very naturally, Lemoine conceived 

 the idea of hybridizing the hardy species with the more brilhant-fiowered 

 garden type. He procured some of the best varieties of G. gandavensis 

 and used pollen from them on his G. purpureo-auratus plants in 1875. 

 The result was three seedHngs, of which two were afterward named and 

 the third was suppressed because its colors were not desirable. The hybrids 

 proved to be hardy, hke the female parent. Lemoine says that the seed- 

 lings were identical in habit, hardiness, height, size and form of flowers, 

 and size and form of the blotches on the lower segments, which were purple 

 bordered w4th yellow. The named varieties were distinguished' by the 

 general color of the corolla, which in G. Lemoinei was rosy white and in 

 Marie Lemoine was straw color. These varieties were put on the market 

 in 1880; in 1882 five more varieties were offered, and in autumn of the 

 same year seven varieties were added to the Hst. In 1881 the EngHsh 

 journal The Garden called attention to a similar hybrid, called G. pur- 



