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that color; and in doing this, I am aware that many of the most 

 beautiful gladioli are left out. 



For a cool pink, America is by far the loveliest; for lavender 

 and purple, Louise, Baron Hulot, HeUotrope (which I have not 

 seen). Blue Jay; for salmon, or flame-pink, Halley, Prince of 

 Wales, Pride of Goshen, Mrs. Francis "King; for yellow and 

 orange, Schwaben, Niagara, Orange Glory, Victory; three good 

 whites, Lily Lehmann, Chicago White, Peace; for mauve, Rosella, 

 Heralda; for warm pink, Evelyn Kirtland, Panama, Tracy's 

 Dawn; and for scarlet and dark red, Princeps, Brenchleyeusis, 

 Mrs. Watt, and War. 



Mrs. Wilder, with her graceful pen, has a paragraph so excel- 

 lent on the use of scarlet gladioU with other flowers., that it is 

 here repeated: "For myself I like cool setting for such briUiant 

 beauties among lavender and dim blue flowers — campanulas, 

 aconites, goat's rue, clary and meadow sage; and nothing could 

 be more effective than sheaves of late-planted red and scarlet 

 gladioli thrusting through a haze of September-flowering Michael- 

 mas daisies — lavender, white, and purple. White musk mallows, 

 with scarlet gladioli planted among them, give a gay effect and 

 the splendid War, massed against white phlox, shows at its best." 



What brilliant pictures in these lines, and what excellent sug- 

 gestions for those whose gardens are starting, and who need the 

 most practical as well as intelligent suggestions. Keep the pink- 

 flowered hardy aster out of these groupings — • root it out, if 

 necessary. Notice that it is omitted from the hst of three in 

 Mrs. Wilder's groupings. 



Try not only the varieties of gladioli mentioned in my list, 

 but as many as you can buy of the newer and improved varieties. 

 No flower, of all those at command, catches and holds more 

 interest than the gladiolus in its nearly endless types, varieties, 

 and colors. 



