OTHER FLOWERS 



vidual flower, much paler than L'Innocehce, with 

 an exceedingly delicate suffusion of sulphur-yellow 

 in the interior of each bloom. 



Antoinette is almost like a lovely ice upon one's 

 plate; it really looks as though it might have the 

 flavor of a peach. Creamy white within, its petals 

 turn at the ends to salmon carmine, French chart 

 125-1; a most delicious gladiolus this is. To 

 neighbor Antoinette in the garden, for a total con- 

 trast, here is Beaute de Juillet, a small flower of 

 wonderful proportions, whose colors are inde- 

 scribably lovely. In the French chart the princi- 

 pal hue is 125-1, with stripes and flakes of a dark 

 color, which looks almost violet against its vivid 

 background; the whole, one thinks, must be made 

 of velvet — it cannot be a living flower. Others 

 are General Kuropatkin, a very fine dark-red 

 flower, French chart 161, all tones; very fine in 

 combination or for contrast with this flower is 

 Sans Pareil, a wondrous flower of flame-pink, or 

 rich light-coral pink, French chart 125, all tones. 

 This has a cream-white throat and white anthers 

 with pink stigma. Belle Alliance is rarely beau- 

 tiful — its flowers are not large; the upper petals 

 are pinkish white, suffused toward the tips with 

 light carmine overlaid with pale violet; the three 



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