BULBS AND TUBEROUS-BOOTED PLANTS. 



best advantage when cut and put in a vase, as the sun is 

 liable to discolor the flowers. 



Mme. Monneret. A clear, delicate rose, short 

 spike, very fine for a late bloomer. 



Meyerbeer. One of the very best, flowers well 

 arranged, large, spike long. Color crimson-scarlet flamed 

 with vermilion. 



Napoleon III. Fine scarlet, heavy, with stripe 

 on the lower petals. 



Nestor. Light yellow ground, with darker yellow 

 stripes and markings. 



President Lincoln. American ; blush-white back- 

 ground, with the edges of the petals suffused with bright 

 rose, the lower divisions heavily blotched and finely lined 

 with crimson. Flowers very large, and well arranged in 

 a long spike. Not a showy variety, but remarkably 

 pleasing. 



Romulus. Very showy, fine dark red, with pure 

 white blotch and markings. 



Snow White. American; the nearest pure white 

 variety yet offered for sale. Under ordinary circum- 

 stances nearly the entire flower is a perfect paper- white, 

 with a slight cream shade on lower half of the lower 

 petal. The spikes are of fair size, flowers well arranged. 



Schiller. Sulphur, with large carmine blotch and 

 markings. 



Shakespeare. Ivory white ground, suffused car- 

 mine-rose, large rosy blotch on lower division; early 

 and constant. One of the best. 



The Lemoine Hybrids. The birth of the Le- 

 moine Hybrids marked a new era in Gladiolus culture ; 

 the hybrids of Gandavensis and their offspring had, 

 seemingly, reached their summit of perfection. Genius, 

 like a vine without support, was swaying to and fro for 

 a subject upon which it could bestow its limitless treas- 

 ures of grace and beauty, and keep alive the warm inter- 



