Plate 295 and 29G. 



NEW GLADIOLUS. 



We have thought it best to present our readers with a double plate in this number of The 

 Floral Magazine, in order to be able to portray at length two very beautiful new varieties 

 of Gladioli raised by Messrs. Kelway and Son, the Eoyal Nurseries, Langport, the well- 

 known cultivators and exhibitors of this fine late summer flower. So well have this firm 

 taken the lead in the raising of Gladioli, that it may be said they are a long way ahead of 

 English florists ; and their productions compare most favourably with those of Mon. Souchet 

 and other continental raisers. How fine their seedlings are, generally, may be understood 

 by the fact that Messrs. Kelway and Son are this season offering for the first time a batch of 

 eighteen new varieties of their own raising, every one of which has received a First-Class 

 Certificate of merit at some leading horticultural exhibition. Two of these are found in the 

 accompanying plate. Queen Mary (No. 1) is one of these charming delicately tinted varieties 

 that always find favour : white, tinted with lavender, and having violet flakes on the edges 

 of the segments ; flowers of excellent shape and great substance, and forming a massive 

 spike. Sir George Nitres (No. 2) has a purplish crimson ground colour on the segments, with 

 distinct flakes of pale red on the edges ; and a flame of white along the centre of each. It 

 also possesses excellent quality, and grows into a noble spike. 



Other fine varieties, forming the batch now being sent out by Messrs. Kelway and Son, 

 are — 



Admiral Willis, red, flaked and shaded crimson. 



Cynibalene, mauve, flaked with purple. 



Dercyttis, rosy pink, flaked with carmine. 



Duchess of Edinburgh, purplish rose, with carmine stripes. 



Earl of Airlie, orange-red and fiery stripes. 



Earl of Dalhousie, lavender, flushed with white. 



Earl Morley, crimson, flaked with maroon. 



Earl Strathmore, scarlet, veined and shaded crimson. 



Galopin, rosy lavender, shaded purple carmine. 



Henry the XIV., white, tinted lavender. 



Lady Leigh, white tinted with rose, flaked with purple. 



Lady Percy, crimson, shaded on the edges with marion. 



Lord BerivicJc, orange scarlet, with a white throat. 



Marquis of Exeter, lilac, flaked and shaded with purple. 



Mrs Lawton, rosy purple, veined with lake. 



Scopas, white, with a large purple blotch on the lower divisious. 



It has been stated that home-raised varieties of the Gladiolus are prone to deteriorate 

 with cultivation. There may be some truth in this remark, but we are bound to state that 

 some of the flowers shown this season by Messrs. Kelway and Son comprehended varieties 

 raised a few years ago, and notwithstanding they have undergone several years' culture, they 

 appeared to be as fine in quality as when they were first introduced to the notice of the 

 public. 



