126 BULBS AND TUBEROUS-BOOTED PLANTS. 



best advantage when cut and put in a vase, as the sun is 

 liable to discolor the flowers. 



Mme. Monneret. — A clear, delicate rose, short 

 spike, very fine for a late bloomer. 



Meyerbeer. — One of the very best, flowers well 

 arranged, large, spike long. Color crimson-scarlet flamed 

 with vermilion. 



Napoleon III. — Fine scarlet, heavy, with stripe 

 on the lower petals. 



Nestor. — Light yellow ground, with darker yellow 

 stripes and markings. 



President Lincoln. — American ; blush-white back- 

 ground, with the edges of the petals suffused with bright 

 rose, the lower divisions heavily blotched and finely lined 

 with crimson. Flowers very large, and well arranged in 

 a long spike. Not a showy variety, but remarkably 

 pleasing. 



Romulus. — Very showy, fine dark red, with pure 

 white blotch and markings. 



Snow White. — American ; the nearest pure white 

 variety yet offered for sale. Under ordinary circum- 

 stances nearly the entire flower is a perfect paper-white, 

 with a slight cream shade on lower half of the lower 

 petal. The spikes are of fair size, flowers well arranged. 



Schiller. — Sulphur, with large carmine blotch and 

 markings. 



Shakespeare.— Ivory white ground, suffused car- 

 mine-rose, large rosy blotch on lower division ; early 

 and constant. One of the best. 



The Lemoine Hybrids.— The birth of the Le- 

 moine Hybrids marked a new era in Gladiolus culture ; 

 the hybrids of Gandavensis and their offspring had, 

 seemingly, reached their summit of perfection. Genius, 

 like a vine without support, was swaying to and fro for 

 a subject upon which it could bestow its limitless treas- 

 ures of grace and beauty, and keep alive the warm inter- 



