THE NEWER GLADIOLI 



ticularly of Mrs. John Laing, and while I have 

 never fancied the idea which obtains here and there 

 of growing gladioli among roses, because of the 

 leggy look of both roses and gladioli at their best, 

 yet, if it must be done, Panama is the flower to 

 place in our rose-beds ! The pink of Panama is 

 that called mauve-rose (color chart, Rose malvace 

 No. 2). Almost invisible markings there are, 

 deep in its throat, of purple-carmine (Carmin 

 pourpre No. 2). A setting of lyme grass, Elymus 

 arenarius, is suggested, with perhaps, near by, a 

 few blooms of the new decussata phlox of luscious 

 pink, Elizabeth Campbell. While the phlox is 

 lighter in tone than the gladiolus, the pinks are 

 of precisely the same type, for I have compared 

 the living flowers. Verbena Dolores might fur- 

 nish the base of this planting to charming ad- 

 vantage. 



With the older gladioli, Peace, Dawn, and 

 Afterglow, we have a sextet of what seemed to 

 me the most beautiful of the newer gladioli, 

 America excepted, but America is now established. 

 It will be noticed, too, that I am far too modest 

 to describe my own beautiful namesake, but I own 

 to such a prejudice in favor of this flower and its 

 brilliant and unmatchable flame-pink, that I could 



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