SUiVIIVIER FLOWERING BULBS 





HIGHCI 



GIANT FLOWERING GLADIOLUS Bulbs 



This race of extraordinarily beautiful Gladiolus represents a gTand achieve- 

 ment in the perfection of this genus. They are of strong, healthy, erect growth, 

 and the flowers reach enormous dimensions, often 7 to 9 inches across. 

 Every color known among Gladiolus is represented, including the bri 

 hues and most curious designs, many having beautifully mottled and spotted 

 throats made up of white, crimson, pink, yellow, etc. They deserve to be grown 

 in every garden. For cutting they are invaluable, the flowers lasting in water 

 a week. They are of easy culture, flower the same season, and by successive 

 plantings every two or three weeks, from April to June, can be had in flower 

 from July until fall. 



PRICES — Delivered Free in the United States. 

 We supply sorts priced at 10c. each for SI .00 per doz.; loc. each for SI. 60 per doz. 



Each. 



America. Flowers of soft pink; strong, erect, many-flowered spike 1 5c. 



Attraction. Rich deep crimson, with large white throat 15c. 



Blanche. Snow-white, with soft rose timings L5c. 



Brilliant. Beautiful orange-red, with white and carmine throat 10c. 



Burlington. Bright pink tinged orange-scarlet, carmine and white throat, loc. . 



Cardinal. Large perfect flower of intense cardinal-scarlet, very beautiful. 15c. 



Columbia. Light scarlet, blotched and penciled purple; throat mottled. 10c. 



Deborah. Dark red tinged amaranth, large white throat and blotches 10c. 



Dr. Parkhurst. Long spike of brilliant red flowers having a white mottled 



throat loc. 



Dr. Sellew. Rich rosy-crimson; penciled darker; throat rayed white 10c. 



Gov. McCormack. Rose, mottled silvery-gray, throat white and violet. 10c. 



Harlequin. Striped and mottled white, red and rose 15c. 



Henry Gilman. Salmon-scarlet, with white bands and mottled throat. . . . 10c. 



Melrose. "White-flaked pink, deep crimson center 15c. 



Mrs. Beecher. Deep rose-crimson; throat white, freely spotted 10c. 



Mrs. Francis King. Large flowers on tall stems; light scarlet with crimson 



blotches on lower netals 15c. 



Mrs. Goldsmith. Soft rose with lighter tintings; large flower and fine spike 15c. 



Nezinscott. Blood-scarlet: throat mottled blackish-crimson and white . . 10c. 



Oddity. Amaranth-red, suffused purple-blue; throat mottled red and white 10c. 



Salem. Fine salmon-pink with maroon blotched 10c. 



Splendor. Soft rose-pink, magenta stains, white and purple mottling .... 15c. 



Superb. Pink-flaked and striped salmon-pink; enormous flowers 15c. 



Variabilis. Enormous soike, color deep pink flaked blue-black 10c. 



Wm. Falconer. Beautiful clear light pink, large flowers and spike 10c. 



COLLECTIONS OF NAMED GIANT GLADIOLUS. 



j Contains 1 bulb each of the / g< qq 



Exquisite Collection , 12 varieties priced at 10c . each f 



Gr- II .• 1 Contains 1 bulb each of the) » i rn 

 orgeous Collection j 12 varieties priced at 15c , each } 



MIXED GIANT GLADIOLUS 



extra large fine bulbs, 5c. each, 

 or if buyer pays transit, 



includes 100 varieties of 

 all colors and markings; 

 50c. per dozen, delivered free in U. S., 

 S3.00 per 100; $25.00 per 1,000. 



Eight Grand, New Giant Gladiolus 



Blue Jay (Groff's). The best blue variety offered. Plant vigorous, often 

 six feet high: flowers large, and of a pronounced blue color with white shadings 

 that contrast strikingly. 50 cts. each, $5.00 per doz. 



Dorothy Burnham (Childsi). Flowers of enormous size; rosy flame color with 

 large pure white throat, splendid 50c. each, $5.00 per doz. 



I. S. Hendrickson — A beautiful and irregular mottling of white and bright 

 deep pink; in some the pink, and in others the white, predominating Flowers 

 and spike very large and fine. 25 cts. each. $L'.."iO per doz. 



Meadowvale. One of the purest whites with a touch of vivid crimson in the 

 throat; the three lower petals are marked with faint pink. 



50 cts. each, $5.00 per doz. 



Peace (Groff's). The grandest white in the world. Flowers are large, of good 

 form, correctly placed on a heavy straight spike. Color beautiful white with 

 a pale lilac feathering on the inferior petals. 75 cts each, $7.50 per doz. 



Taconic. Bright lively pink, flecked and striped with shades of the same color, 

 the petals lightening to the faintest blush in the throat. The markings on 

 the lower petals are deep crimson, running into a thin stripe of pale lemon- 

 yellow. 50 cts. each, $5.00 per doz. 



Pink Pearl (Childsi). An exquisite variety of delicate pearl pink. 50c. each, 

 $5.00 per doz. 



Rose Spray (Childsi). A very large and fine white sprayed with rose color. 

 50c. each..?.") .00 per doz. 



The collection of 8 Grand, New Gladiolus, 1 bulb each of those above for $3.50. 



Groff s Gladiolus 



In Grand 

 Mixture. 



The "Groff" Gladiolus. This strain of great merit has been evolved by Mr. 

 Groff, a Canadian banker with scientific tendencies, who is widely known as 

 an enthusiastic and successful hybridizer and grower of Gladiolus. His means 

 enabled him to collect from various parts of the world perhaps the finest collec- 

 tion of Gladiolus ever gotten together. He flowered and retained the cream 

 of these, then cross-bred and selected annually for over 15 years, until the 

 present Groff strain of Hybrid Gladiolus is absolutely unsurpassable and now 

 world-famous. One of Mr. Groff's hobbies is to allow no unhealthy or weak- 

 growing variety to remain in his fields, so that these bulbs we are offering 

 will produce strong, vigorous-growing plants, with long, sturdy spikes. The 

 flowers are extra large, of perfect form, splendid substance, and of the greatest 

 beauty, embracing a range of diversified coloring with combinations of mark- 

 ings almost endless and undreamed of, insuring to purchasers of these bulbs 

 many delightful surprises. 



Price, Groff's Genuine, Newest Hybrid Gladiolus Bulbs, in Grand Mixture, 

 7c. each, 75c. per doz., delivered free in the U. S., or $5.00 per 100. buyer 

 paying expressage. 



Henderson's Bulb Culture (offered on page 196) tells about Growing all Summer and Winter Flowering Bulbs. Price, 50c. 



