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OMPANY'S 



GLADIOLUS. 



SPLENDID FRENCH AND BELGIAN HYBEIDS OF GANDAYENSIS. 



FORWARD ED BT MAIL TO ANY ADDRESS, POST-PAID, AT CATALOGUE PRICES. 



Tite new hybrid productions of the Gladiolus Gandavensis are, without doubt, the most 

 superb flowering-bulbs in cultivation, producing their magnificent, long, and densely-flow- 

 sred spikes of bloom, varying from white to rich salmon, and brilliant carmine to the mosl 

 intense scarlet or crimson. A single bulb will often give two or three stems of bloom; and 

 a succession of flowers will be produced for two months. 



General Treatment. — The bulbs should be planted as soon as the ground is fairly 

 dried in the spring, and all danger of frost is over; planting may be made every two seeks 

 until the middle of June, to secure a succession of bloom. Plant the bulbs from two to four 

 inches deep, according to their size. The soil should be enriched with well-decomposed 

 manure, and well pulverized. The plants should be well staked, and the bloom will be 

 magnificent. When the frost has killed the leaves, or before, if the leaves, by turning yel- 

 low, show the ripening of the bulb, the bulb should be taken up, dried rapidly in full sun- 

 light, and the new bulbs separated from the old. Should be kept during the winter in a 

 dry, cool cellar, free from frost. 



A discount of five per cent from catalogue prices will bo made when one dozen varieties 

 are ordered, ten per cent on two dozen varieties, and fifteen per cent on fifty varieties. 

 Purchasers will please state whether we may substitute, in the event of our being out o v be 

 varieties ordered. 



SOUCHET'S NEW VARIETIES OF 1871. 



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3.0C 



1.00 



(NOW OFFERED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS COUNTRY.) 



EACH. 



Alcyon. Very fine spike of large flowers, white ground, bordered and blazed with 



carminate rose ; charming plant, dwarf S2.00 



Antigone. Long spike of very large flowers, tender rose, largely blazed with car- 

 minate red ; very showy. Perfection 2.00 



Antiope. Very long fine spike of large flowers of a light orange cherry color, with 



a very dark carmine stain on pure white ground; very showy . 

 Ariane. Very long spike of large, perfect flowers, white ground slightly tinged with 

 rose or lilac, bordered and blazed with tender carminate rose; the isver 

 divisions with pure white ground. Splendid perfection . . . 

 Arsinoe. Fine spike of large perfect flowers, veiy fine satiuetted rose, blazed with 



bright carmine ; charming dwarf plant 



Beatrix. Very long spike of large, perfect flowers, pure white ground very deli- 

 cately blazed with carminate lilac. Splendid 3.0O 



Celimene. Very long spike of very large flowers, wcli opened, perfect, light orange- 

 red largely blazed with very brilliant red. Splendid plant. Perfection . 2.0C 

 Didon. Very large and long spike of large perfect flowers, white slightly tinged and 



blazed with tender lilac; lower divisions pure white. Perfection . . 3.50 

 Jupiter. Very long and fine spike of very large perfect flowers, ground light-red, very 



largely blazed with very dark crimson red. Splendid and sl> jwy variety 

 Minerve. Very large spike of well-opened large flowers, very bright orilliant crim- 

 son, small carminate red stain on a large white ground. Very fine color . 

 Ossian. Very long and fine spike of large perfect flowers; very fine bright rose 

 tinged with violet, and blazed with carmine; very well lighted ground . 

 Phebus. Fine spike of large flowers of a very striking fire-red color, with a very 



large pure white and very showy stain. Splendid late variety 

 Virginal is. Long spike of large flower*, very pure white, bordered and blazed with 

 carminate tender rose; small plant, very fine and delicate 

 The above collection of thirteen varieties, $30.00. 



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