300 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The trial ground was at its brightest in October, and to the varieties 

 already mentioned the following may be added for their vigour and the 

 freedom with which they were then flowering. All have already received 

 Awards of Merit or have been highly commended as grown under 



glass : — 



Dare Foliage. 



Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig. — Orange red. 

 Mrs. G. A. Strohlein.— Carmine crimson. 

 Stadtrath Heidenreich. — Orange scarlet. 



Light Foliage. 



Edouard Meig. — Orange scarlet. 

 Frau Philipp Siesmayer. — Salmon-rose. 

 Isabella Breitschwerdt. — Salmon-rose. 

 Jean Tissot. — Orange scarlet. 

 Karl Kirsten. — Orange scarlet. 



Reichskanzler Furst Hohenlohe. — Yellow, spotted with red. 

 R. Wallace. — Pale yellow, faintly spotted with rose. 



A detailed description of the varieties is furnished in The Journal, 

 vol. xxxiii. (1908) pp. 212 et seq. A rough classification is appended : — 



GLADIOLUS-FLOWERED. — Compact habit; truss large, close- 

 flowered; petals smooth, firm in texture, colours generally 

 brilliant. 



Foliage dark (i.e. green, variably veined and suffused with bronze 

 and crimson). 



Floiuers salmon, pink, rose. 



Eastern Beauty. Juanita. 



Evolution. Kronprinzessin Cacilie. 



Floreal. 



Frau Griifin Ernestine von 



Melrose, A.M. 1907. 

 Shenandoah. 

 William Watson. 



Thun. 

 Hiawatha. 



Flowers orange, orange-red. 



Arthur William Paul. 

 Cbappaqua. 



Dr. Marcus, XXX 1908. 

 Duke Ernst. 



Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig, 



Oscar Dannecker, A.M. 1901. 

 President Carnot. 

 President de Peronne. 

 Semaphore. 



S. T. Wright, A.M. 1907. 

 Wilhelm Tell. 

 Wyoming, XXX 1907. 



A.M. inoi. 



Max Kolb. 



Flowers orange-scarlet, scarlef. 

 Brandy wine. 

 Congeilleur 1 [eidenreich. 

 I Hutscher Kronprinx. 

 liana Werdmulier. 

 Leo Vaughan. 



President Meyer. 

 Schwabenland. 



Stadtrath Heidenreich, A.M 



1897. 



