THE NEWER GLADIOLI 



are Dawn and Afterglow. Dawn, the lovely and 

 poetic both in name and in look, has for its gen- 

 eral color salmon-carmine (color chart, Carmin 

 saumone No. 1). In my own tongue I should 

 call this flower suffused with delicate coral-pink 

 the buds like the palest coral from Naples 

 these buds, too, gracefully drooping with a large 

 softness peculiarly their own. Dawn what sug- 

 gestion in the name ! Dawn rising among well- 

 established groups of the Japanese anemones 

 Whirlwind or Beaute Parfaite; Dawn with the 

 salmon-pink geranium Beaute Poitevine; Dawn 

 in conjunction with Niagara all these are sure 

 to prove arrangements to charm one's eye in mid- 

 summer. There is a salmon-pink balsam above 

 which Dawn might be enchanting. Afterglow 

 greatly caught my fancy. In general tone it is a 

 flesh-pink (color chart, Rose carne No. 4), with 

 throat markings, very apparent, lilac-purple (chart, 

 Fuchsine No. 4). A rich salmon of generally the 

 same tone in all its flowers would be my own 

 description of it. 



Taconic I had opportunity to observe closely 

 last August; its general color is mauve-rose (Rose 

 malvace No. 2), though the flakes of white very 

 finely distributed over the prevailing tone make 



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