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POPULAR GARDENING. 



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Chenier of Lemoine's hybrid spotted strain. 

 The colors are cream, flushed with pink, 

 with the lower inner segments purple, with 

 golden-yellow apices, which render it very 

 conspicuous. Both this variety and the last 

 are much cupped. 



A writer in London Garden, who has 

 grown there new Lemoine Gladioluses de- 

 scribes others besides those illustrated as 

 follows: 



CoMTE Horace de Choiseul, tall, slen- 

 der-growing, large, handsome, of perfect 

 shape, and brilliant light scarlet, flamed 

 with carmine, with most distinct blotches 

 of deep crimson, 

 ti pped with 

 creamy yellow on 

 the lower petals. 

 Very distinct. 



MoNS. Hardy. 

 Large, well-open, 

 of a vinous shade 

 of purple, flamed 

 with carmine, dis- 

 tinctly spotted 

 with crimson on 

 creamy ground, 

 on lower petals ; 

 vigorous. 



P. DUCHARTE. 



Of medium 

 height, slender, 

 branching flower- 

 spike, flowers 

 large and well ex- 

 panded, but of not 

 quite perfect 

 form, color a rich 

 shade of vinous 

 scarlet, flamed 

 with carmine, 

 with creamy 

 white spots on the 

 lower petals. 

 MoNs. Lefebvre. 

 Slender grower; 

 flowers of large 

 size and excellent 

 form, with, how- 

 ever, a slight 

 tendency to de- 

 pression in the 

 upper center petal . 

 Light scarlet, dis- 

 tinctly veined 

 with carmine with 



clear blotches of a creamy yellow color, 

 distinctly spotted with brilliant carmine. 



MoNS. Laforcade. Tall and vigorous, 

 with branching flower spike; large flowers 

 of a pleasing light scarlet, with creamy yel- 

 low blotches profusely spotted with car- 

 mine, upper center petal depressed. 



Maurice de Vilmoris. Vigorous with 

 branching spike; large flowers of perfect 

 form, and curious shade of dull violet, 

 shaded with white. The two lower petals 

 clearly spotted with carmine, with a broad, 

 pure white streak down the center of each. 



Ferdinand Bergman. Large, of excel- 

 lent form, most pleasing shade of light red, 

 faintly streaked with orange-red, and with 

 two distinctly marked rosy purple blotches 

 on the lower petals; not over vigorous. 



Eiffel. Tall, with branching flower- 

 spike; flower of irregular shape, of a pale 

 canary yellow, faintly flushed and streaked 

 with carmine, and with deep maroon 

 blotches on a brighter yellow ground on 

 lower petals. 



John Laing. A fine vigorous grower, 

 with branching spike; very large, well- 

 formed flowers of fine light scarlet, with an 

 almost black throat, and most of the lower 

 petals flamed with deep carmine. An ex- 

 ceedingly handsome variety. 



M. Torct-Vannier. Of medium height 

 and much-branching flower-spike; flowers 

 well-opened but irregularly placed upon the 



spike, color brilliant shade of light orange- 

 red with distinct carmine blotch on a pure 

 white ground on each of the two lower 

 petals, exceedingly pretty when the flowers 

 are perfect. 



Beaurepaire. a rather low grower, with 

 large, well- formed, but not over fully ex- 

 panded flowers of clear, light rose color, 

 pure white ground, with carmine blotch on 

 lower petals. 



Charles Baltet. Very tall, vigorous, 

 with very branching flower-spike, large 

 flowers of a curious rosy violet, with clear 

 white throat bordered with a band of clear 



Alsace 



President Carnot. 

 SOME OF THE NEWER LEMOINE HYBRID GLADIOLUSES. 



rose color, resembles Maurice de Vilmorin, 

 but has larger, brighter and better shaped 

 flowers. 



Marceau. Vigorous, with branching 

 flower-spike; large flowers of perfect shape 

 and light rose color. The marking of the 

 lower petals irregularly distributed, blotch- 

 es of brightest carmine on a yellow ground, 

 and a rosy rim. 



Baudin. Slender grower, with unbranch- 

 ing spike; large, brilliant, scarlet flowers, 

 lightly flaked with carmine on the outer 

 edges of the petals, and small crimson 

 blotch on a canary-yellow ground on the 

 two lower petals. 



Edison. Of medium stature; flowers of 

 good shape; a light shade of scarlet, evenly 

 flaked with carmine, crimson velvety 

 blotches, with white pointed tip on the two 

 lower petals. 



Liberie. Vigorous, with branching flow- 

 er-spike; small, tubular, brownish red flow- 

 ers, with broad yellow margins, and deep 

 carmine blotches on the lower petals; should 

 not have been sent out. 



nia strain is unfamiliar with the the present 

 condition of the Gladioli. Having grown 

 nearly all the varieties named and intro- 

 duced during the past twenty-five years, 

 and having lately inspected the Gladioli in 

 Boston, Rochester, New York, Baltimore, 

 Washington, Chicago and St. Louis, and 

 having the best of those on my grounds, I 

 cannot accept the idea that the last has 

 everything good in that line. 



As an instance, last Spring a parcel of 

 much advertised new Eastern Gladioli was 

 purchased and planted with some of the 

 California productions, and though person- 

 ally acquainted 

 with the intro- 

 ducer, and having 

 great respect for 

 him, yet I must 

 say that not a per- 

 son saw them in 

 bloom who did 

 not pronounce 

 them inferior in 

 every respect to 

 more than twenty 

 of the unnamed 

 seedlings of the 

 new strain of the 

 same class. I had 

 not learned before 

 reading the article 

 referred to that 

 any one had rec- 

 ommended the 

 strain as being 

 ■' able to with- 

 stand the heaviest 

 rains." But we 

 never have rains 

 during the Gladi- 

 oli season here. 



It may be said 

 that it was by the 

 importunities of 

 an Eastern florist 

 that some of these 

 Gladiolus were 

 offered before a 

 sufficient stock of 

 bulbs of the best 

 varieties had been 

 grown. 



If the n ew 

 strain proves to 

 be unworthy, the 

 originator will not be the last person to 

 acknowledge it. A love for the beautiful 

 and for horticultural advancement was the 

 only incentive for the ten years' labor in pro- 

 ducing the new strain of which there are yet 

 more and still belter ones to come. 



^niirt' Chenier. 



The Californlan Gladioli. 



LUTHER BURBANK, SONOMA COUNTY, CAL. 



The article in a recent number by Mr. 

 Endicott on newer Gladioli came under my 

 notice. I would suggest that the writer 

 may have been a little hasty in his conclu- 

 sion that the introducer of the new Califor- 



2,122. Tuberoses not Flowering. I find it a 

 very easy matter to bloom Tnberoses under the 

 following treatment. I obtained my tubers in 

 I April, and commeuced potting them at once in 

 to a compost of nearly one half of a good rich 

 I fibrous loam, chopped into small pieces, the 

 I other halt of well decomposed cow manure, in 

 addition to some sand. For the use of these 

 tubers, I find that there is nothing better than 

 a 1-inch pot for single tubers. In crocking the 

 pots, good drainage is indispensable. It is of 

 great importance to press the soil as firmly as 

 possible round the tuber; care should be taken 

 not to bruise the tubers. I always find it 

 necessary to have a brisk bottom to ensure the 

 bulbs starting into growth. Water when dry, 

 but not till tbey are dry. If they are treated in 

 this way the spikes must come up. Never give 

 any liquid manure until the spikes are visible. 

 When the flower spikes are visible the plants 

 should have a little weak liquid manure, and 

 never allow a Tuberose at this stage of growth 

 to get dry. It is beneficial to these plants to 

 place a saucer under them from the time they 

 commence flowering until the spikes are fully 

 developed. All the time the plants are sending 

 up their spikes they will absorb a quantity of 

 moisture, and should be kept supplied with it 

 to induce them to expand their blooms to full 

 size. As the spikes gradually advance in growth 

 use manure water stronger.— E. R. W. Boston, 

 Mass. 



