July. | The old Authors have defcribed it under the 
: Names of Gladiolus Byzantinus, and Gladiolus ma- 
_ . jor Byzantinus. . Ey 
Linnus refering. it to the original Species 
calls it, Gladiolus foliis enfiformibus floribus di- 
a ftantibus : Sword-leaved Gladiole, with diftant 
a Flowers. 
_ wrap’d up in feveral Coats... : 
The Leaves are long, narrow, firm, fharp-point- 
ed, and edged ; their Colour is a fine frefh. green, 
and they rife with great Regularity. 
The Stalk is flender, weak, and of a paler 
green: it is two Foot and a half high, and al- | 
ways bends more or lefs toward the Top. It 
rifes among a Clufter of the Leaves, and has.a 
few of the fame Kind, but fhorter upon it.: 
The Flowers form a kind of Spike half the 
Length of the Stalk; they are very large, and 
_ of a deep but beautiful purple. The better the 
Culture of the Plant, the larger and the deeper 
colour’d will be the Flowers. I have feen them 
OF GAR NI 
The Root is: {mall and’ tender, compofed’ of 
two Bulbs placed one above the other, -and_ 
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almoft black, but not the lefs beautiful. 
Their Structure is the fame as in the common = 
Gladiole: fix Petals unite at their Bafes into a 
fhort crooked Tube, and there rife within, three 
Filaments and a fingle Style ; the Plant is refer’d 
by thefe Charaéters to the Triandria Monog ynia 
of Linn avs. — 
Culture of this Guabtork. 
We have given the Management of another 
Kind of this Plant, and there requires no diftinét 
Care for this. | 
In faving the Seeds regard muft be had to » 
the Size of the Flowers, and their Colour, 
The largeft and the darkeft are the bef. 
They muft be raifed as the others; but when ’ 
brought into the Garden fome Regard thould be 
had to their native Climate; and a warmer Spot 
chofen for them. With this Regulation they 
will flower as regularly and as beautifully as the 
others; and they have a farther Value, that they 
come in later. 
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6 STRIPED BULBOUS IRIS, 
This is an Iris that very well deferves its Place 
in the beft Gardens : it is hardy enough to beag all 
Seafons, and inferior to none in Beauty. 
The old Authors have all defcribed the Plant : 
bofa flore ceruleo &F albo verficolor : the change- 
able, and blue and white changeable bulbous 
Iris. , 
Linnaus, who does not admit thefe Varia- 
Species, calls it, Iris folis margine conniventibus, 
—_ corollis imberbibus: beardlefs Iris, with the Leaves 
clofing at their Edges. 
The Root is bulbous, fmall, white, and en- 
clofed in feveral Membranes. 
are long, narrow, and of a frefh green; they are 
hollowed, and their Edges often come together, 
and the Point is fharp. 
The Stalk is round, thick, jointed, and fur- 
rounded by feveral ftrait Leaves, of a paler green 
than thofe from the Root: it is a Foot and half 
high, and fupports, when the Plant is in its 
higheft Perfection, only one Flower. Sometimes 
there will be two or three; but in that Cafe they 
_are always inferior to fuch as are fupported fingly 
_ oh their. Stalks, and of lefs Duration. 
The Gardener will therefore do wifely if he 
pulls off the fecond Flowers as foon as they ap- 
pear in the Bud, that the whole Effort of Nature 
may go where it was intended, to the Support of 
the one principal Flower. 
This is of the fame Structure with the reft of 
the Zris’s, but very diftinguifh’d in the Colour- 
ing. 
it has no Cup, except fome light irregular 
they call it, Lis bulbofa verficolor, and Iris bul-. 
tions in Colouring as any Marks to diftinguifh 
The Leaves rife five or fix together, and they 
Films, which form a kind of Scabbard, be digni- 
fied with that Name. 
The Petals are fix, three placed upright, and 
three drooping; and there is the Appearance of 
another Set of three, but thefe are only the broad 
Appendages of the Style. All the fix Petals unite 
; at their Bafe; and from the Centre {pring three Fi- < 
laments ; thefe lie upon the drooping Petals, and 
have thin, oblong, ftrait, deprefled Buttons, 
The Rudiment of the Fruit is placed below 
the Receptacle: the Style that rifes from this is 
very fhort, and its Head remarkably large, and 
form’d of thefe three Divifions, which’ 
obferved refemble Petals. , 
The ground Colour is a pure pearly white. 
Each of the drooping Petals has a fingular ob- 
long Mark, of a Lemon yellow in its Middle ; 
and thefe, as well as the upright ones, are ftreak- 
ed with a celeftial blue in the moft regular and 
elegant Manner :. they have the Appearance of 
we have 
fome of the fineft and beft wrought blue and 
white Summer Silks. | 
| The Streaks of blue are in fome Flowers 
broader, and in others narrower : they are al{o of 
a deeper Colour in fome Flowers, and paler in. - 
others, but in all very elegant. 
The yellow is fubje& alfo to fome Variation, 
but it is beft when of pale and delicate Hue 
we have defcribed here; when dark it gives a 
Coarfenefs to the Flower. 
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Culture of this Iris. 
We have had Occafion in a preceding Num- 
ber, to treat of the Culture of the buJbous Jris’s, 
and we have given it at large, 
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