OTHER FLOWERS 



inspection, and of these I will now discourse for a 

 little. A group of these gladioli in dusky tones 

 reminds me, as I say, of Prince of India in color 

 and texture; like old Genoese velvets in tones of 

 faded rose, they are almost a mulberry, and have 

 a bloom like the plum's. Among the most beau- 

 tiful of these, sent me by Mr. Wing, of Mechanics- 

 burg, Ohio, are the following, all Lemoine's: 

 Nuee d'Orage, whose inner color is, according to 

 the French chart. No. 105; Corinthian red, in 

 Ridgway; outer color of edges — French chart, 

 189-4; Ridgway, bishop's violet. This flower is 

 finely named. Bleriot has somewhat the same 

 coloring, but there is some sulphur-yellow in the 

 lower petals. This gladiolus is a beauty, and has 

 an uncommonly large flower. Colosse, as its 

 name would imply, is the largest of this dusky 

 rose group. Here we find long petals in a widely 

 opened flower, very handsome and distinct. 

 Closely related to this in color is Admiral Cervera, 

 very dull in tone, ashes of roses really, as in a fab- 

 ric, with one cream-white lower petal tipped with 

 dull rose. Desdemona, Carmelite, show veinings 

 of soft violet on the dull rose of their petals; 

 Marocain, heavily suffused with violet on deep 

 rose, and Deuil de St. Pierre, a beautiful faded- 



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