HARDY GLADIOLUS. 



appeared ; and although we tried to get rid of it when the plants 

 were small, it resisted our efforts, and has done much damage to 



Fig. 38. — Leaf attacked with Puccinia malvacea^um. 



some~of the plants, although the general collection has not failed 

 to flower remarkably well. 



HARDY GLADIOLUS. 

 By M. Emile Lemoine, of Nancy. 

 [Bead Sept. 9, 1890.] 



j)EioHE I enter upon the subject which is to occupy us to-day, 

 viz., the study of the Gladiolus, as it has been transformed by 

 numberless hybridisations and improved by successive selec- 

 tions, I am anxious to tender my most grateful thanks to the 

 Council of the Royal Horticultural Society for the honour done 

 to French horticulture in inviting one of its members to utter 

 his ideas before so celebrated a Society. Although I fear that 

 such a task may be too hard for me, I shall endeavour to fulfil 

 it as well as I can, treating the question from a general point 

 of view and avoiding constant enumerations as well as tiresome 

 particulars. After having examined as summarily as possible 

 the first hybridisations that amateurs and growers have been 



