THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



of gladiolus in this country, was the formation of 

 the American Gladiolus Society. To all who take 

 serious interest in this flower, I would recom- 

 mend the small monthly publication, "The Mod- 

 ern Gladiolus Grower," published at Calcium, 

 New York, by Mr. Madison Cooper, himself an 

 amateur; this paper is the organ of the American 

 Gladiolus Society, and a very fountainhead of 

 expert information in all matters relating to 

 gladioli. 



Gladiolus Badenia, described in the first edition 

 of this book, much grown for some years and con- 

 sidered very fine, proved a failure, and for sub- 

 stitutes in pure lavender there are really none. 

 Louise, a much-praised lavender, has to me a 

 rather muddy look; Herada, however, a very 

 beautiful mauve, might be named as related to 

 the pale violets, delightful of course when com- 

 panioned in the garden by the deep-purple pe- 

 tunia, the cool-pink annual aster. One might 

 grow Herada with palest yellow snapdragon; or, 

 a more subtle arrangement yet, plan to have it 

 late against Salvia azurea, the junction of its 

 stems with the ground masked by rippling mounds 

 of Phlox drummondii lutea. All pale yellows and 

 buffs, all rich purples, all blues [which are almost 

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