Summer-flowering Bulbs, 



FOR SPRING PLANTING. 



This class embraces some of the most beautiful and desirable gems of the flor.il 

 kingdom, being profuse bloomers, of easy culture, and rapid growth. 



GLADIOLUS. 



For New Varieties, see Novelties for 1869, page 77, 



SPLENDID FRENCH AND BELGIAN HYBRIDS OF 

 GKLAJDIOL.TJS GANDAVENSIS, 



In many new and rare varieties, from the most celebrated European cultivators. 



This superb family of flowering plants is too well known, as ranking 

 of late years among the foremost of popular favorites, to need any partic- 

 ular description. The improvements in it, made by skilful hybridizing and 

 judicious culture, have lately introduced some magnificent varieties, to 

 which no description can possibly do justice. It is sufficient to say, that 

 in richness, delicacy, and variety of tints, running into all imaginable com- 

 binations, they stand unrivalled in the florist's collection. The flowers are 

 large, -well formed, and conspicuously arranged in a stately spike ; and 

 a tasteful selection and blending of sorts produces in midsummer a bril- 

 liant and striking effect, without which no flower-garden can be complete 

 in its appointments. 



The cultivation of the Gladiolus is very simple. The bulbs may be 

 planted any time after the first of April, in rows or beds of deep, loamy, 

 and moderately rich soil, from two to three inches deep, and from six to 

 twelve inches apart, as to size. The plants should be well watered in a 

 dry season, and the new bulbs carefully taken up in. the fall, before the 

 ground freezes, and stored in a dry place. By planting at intervals through 

 April, May, and June, a long succession of bloom may be secured. 



We will allow a discount of five per cent from catalogue price when one 

 dozen are ordered, ten per cent on two dozen, and twenty per cent on 

 fifty varieties. 



Please state if, in the event of our being out of the varieties ordered, we 

 may substitute others. Forwarded by mail to any address in the United 

 States. 



GLADIOLUS IN ASSORTMENTS. 



It is to the advantage of the purchaser to leave the selection to us, as 

 we may have a surplus stock of some of the finer and higher-priced varie- 

 ties, which we can include in these assortments. 



