THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



sistible to me than this. Its lovely perpendicular 

 line first, lilylike, irislike; then its truly pris- 

 matic range of exquisite color. No wonder that 

 hybridizers in Holland, France, Germany, Great 

 Britain, and this country have been earnestly 

 working now for years upon so beautiful a sub- 

 ject, or that amateur hybridizers are beginning 

 to crop out in our own land. 



The cultivation of the gladiolus is so exceed- 

 ingly simple; the results so wonderfully reward- 

 ing; the color effects so certain of accomplish- 

 ment with flowers which come as true to type 

 and color as these; there is everything to praise 

 in this flower, no check to the imagination when 

 forming one's summer plans with lists of it by 

 one's side. Gardens of enchantment might easily 

 be created by the careful use of two annuals such 

 as dark heliotrope, ageratum Stella Gurney, and 

 the lavender, cool, pink, and palest-yellow gladi- 

 olus, mentioned in these pages. A mistake of 

 judgment would be almost impossible with these 

 materials in hand. 



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