THE NEWER GLADIOLI 



turquoise, rise to the mind as one thinks of the 

 delicious pictures obtainable by combining such 

 colors with either Herada or Rosella, the last de- 

 scribed a few pages farther on. Orange Glory is 

 another great beauty, not large, but wide, frilled, 

 and in color Ridgway's salmon pink. This gladi- 

 olus gives one an actual shock of pleasure. It 

 shines out from every group of its kind. It glows 

 with bright color. 



Now for the glorious pair Niagara and Panama. 

 Niagara shall have the first word. Niagara is 

 quite worthy of several descriptions. I therefore 

 give first its commercial one, prefacing that by 

 the fact that it has already secured three honors 

 from horticultural societies, including one from the 

 American Gladiolus Society. "In type," says its 

 originator, "the variety resembles America, but 

 the flowers appear to be somewhat larger, measur- 

 ing four and one-half inches across. In color the 

 flowers are a delightful cream shade, with the two 

 lower inside petals or segments blending to ca- 

 nary-yellow. The flower spike is very erect and 

 stout and is wrapped with broad dark-green 

 foliage." 



Now, to be exact in my own color description 

 of this flower, Niagara is of the tone known as 

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