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were yet to unfold their petals for the first time; 

 and that we were still planting from one to 

 three pounds of hybridized lily seed every season. 

 So the varieties actually announced were only 

 the forerunners of a vast company of which 

 more would be heard in later years. 



(9) New varieties of Gladiolus. It was 

 stated that six of the best forms of this flower, 

 from among a million or more seedlings raised 

 during the ten years preceding, had been intro- 

 duced four years earlier, one of these being the 

 first double gladiolus and the first of a type in 

 which the flowers are closely arranged all 

 around the spike, like a hyacinth. In the 

 catalogue ten interesting forms were listed and 

 succinctly described, among others a white 

 form with very large flowers, several dwarfs 

 with curious stripes and markings, and sundry 

 double forms. 



(10) Hybrid Clematis. Six new forms were 

 named, including a double variety, with broad 

 snow-white petals, the flowers five to six inches 

 in diameter, that blooms almost constantly 

 throughout spring, summer, and fall. Another 

 variety was said to resemble a white water lily, 

 and it was said of the group that "No hardy 

 flower except the rose and the lily is so mag- 

 nificently beautiful as the new hybrid Clematis; 



