The Garden Magazine, August, 1922 



379 



ARRANGEMENT OF A SINGLE 

 VARIETY 



The lovely orchid-like Daybreak, light 

 pink with blazed white throat; its dwarf 

 habit making it easy of arrangement 



bloomed-out tips are like rose- 

 buds and very lovely when float- 

 ing in a flat bowl, the waxen 

 petals outlined against the green 

 of Rose or Dahlia foliage. 



Chaste and graceful, Gladiolus 

 L'Immaculee, quite the most 

 beautiful white, rivals all candles, 

 when its long spikes of glistening 

 snow are placed in slender vase 

 on mantel or table. 



Daybreak, soft jasper pink, is 

 exquisite when fresh, but, if pos- 

 sible, more so as it fades. The 

 orchid-like bloom resting on the 

 broad edge of the modern flower 

 bowl, is quite as artistic as one 

 could desire, and as choice as 

 the rarest Rose. 



Unusually effective in combination are Baron Hulot, true 

 blue-purple, and Mrs. Watt, rich American Beauty red, which 

 together give a charming rendering of the popular French rose- 

 and-blue conception. 



THE bloomed-out tip-ends of almost any variety are as 

 great an asset for decoration as fresh blooms, and tip-ends 

 of Gladiolus Conspicuus, or any of the lavender or mauve 

 varieties, with rubrum Lilies and Farleyense or Maidenhair 

 Ferns, make a table decoration of rare beauty and again the 

 ■"Poor Man's Orchid" is supreme. 



FOR LUNCHEON OR DINNER 

 TABLE 



Primulinus Hybrids, Larkspur 

 belladonna, and Baby's-breath 

 (Gypsophila) in airy combination 



The new Primulinus Hybrids 

 are the coming kinds for both 

 garden and home decoration, 

 leaving exquisite shades adapt- 

 able for every use, and of deco- 

 rative value from the first bloom 

 to the last bud. Not a bloom 

 is wasted, for with these, as with 

 the larger type, the flowers are 

 as useful when a week old as 

 when fresh. 



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OMMERCIALLY, the use 

 of the Gladiolus is not un- 

 derstood or appreciated. A flor- 

 ist's dearest possession, during 

 the Gladiolus season, should be 

 a supply of blooms at least five 

 days old. But usually, the buds 

 are pinched out of fresh spikes, and the mutilated stump 

 thrust into wreath, spray or basket, with a result that is any- 

 thing but artistic or pleasing. 



For years the Gladiolus was called "too stiff." Now the 

 demand for the flowers in decoration is greater than the supply. 

 They grow the same as they did years ago, except that the 

 large varieties are larger and the small ones more dainty; 

 but the large ones, in all their wonderful colorings, are no 

 longer "too stiff" and the dainty blooms of the Primulinus 

 Hybrids are not "too small." We have learned how to use 

 them. 



