A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



kins. The cover belies the contents, which are of 

 unusual value, especially since fourteen evidently 

 very fine new varieties are here offered for the first 

 time from a private collection. Here is the gladi- 

 olus collector's opportunity. 



The well-printed booklet of A. E. Kunderd, of 

 Goshen, Indiana, originator of the very striking 

 Mrs. Frank Pendleton, Jr., and of the ruffled hy- 

 brids of the gladiolus, is very interesting of its 

 kind; to the hybridist particularly perhaps, be- 

 cause to none but actual hybridizers of a flower 

 can the extra frill in a daffodil or gladiolus edge be 

 entirely exciting. The new hybrids of Ghdidus 

 primulinus should be pleasant to see, partly be- 

 cause of the charm of the species, in its wonderful 

 colors and pecuhar grace, and partly because, in 

 the hands of so patient and successful a worker as 

 Mr. Kunderd is known to be, there will surely be 

 rare productions from them. The great drawback 

 of this list is the presence of many peculiarly dull 

 and even ugly names for new varieties of gladioli. 

 Gold Throat, for example, may be descriptive — 

 but Lily Blotch, Billy Red, and Splendorra ! 



To sum up: the great lack in the American seed 

 list is the lack of correct color-description. Super- 

 latives in descriptive writing of flowers we pass 



