THE NEWER GLADIOLI 



most necessary of all, the note-making in one's 

 little book — that little book which should never 

 be in the house when the gardener is in the garden ! 

 I was greatly interested to learn that florists pre- 

 fer for cutting in some cases, the gladiolus whose 

 stems are allowed to bend and twist as they 

 bloom. A hint of this kind may be valuable for 

 some of us who grow this superb flower mainly 

 to put about our houses. It is easy to see the 

 agreeable variety of line afforded for such purposes 

 by the gladiolus which has not been strictly 

 staked. 



On going over what has been said, I marvel at 

 my attempt to write on the glories of this special 

 flower. I have, in the first place, left out so many 

 beauties, such for instance as Sulphur King, Mrs. 

 Frank Pendleton, Jr. (bright rose-pink, a little 

 deeper toward centre of the flower, the lower 

 petals blotched with carmine — so remarkable 

 that a connoisseur writes of it: "Mrs. Pendleton 

 is in bloom, has a five-foot stalk with twenty 

 flowers and a smaller offshoot with twelve; it is 

 simply magnificent"), William Falconer, America, 

 Kunderd's Glory — there are dozens which should 

 come into any writing in connection with this 

 flower. No flower of the garden proves more irre- 



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