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AMERICAN GLADIOLI— per doz. each 
Novelty (Grolf), open flowers of immense size, heavily margined bright rose on a ' ' 
solid white ground, lower petal having a primrose blotch stippled red, very showy ; 
tall, strong robust grower —S ^ 
Panama, a fine variety with broad spike of very large flowers measuring about 5 in. 
across, silvery pink with salmon flush, lower petals stained carmine and white, 
tall. Award of Merit National Gladiolus Society 1912 — ...3 6 
Peace (Groff), flowers of immense size, measuring over 4 in. across, white with 
faint rosy tinge, lower petals prettily feathered purple-crimson, ht. 3 to 4 ft 10 6...1 o 
Peach blow (Groff), bearing a remarkably long spike of very large slightly hooded 
flowers of a most beautiful pale shell-pink with rosy glow, ht. 3 ft — ...2 6 
President Taft, a very strong grower, bearing a long handsome spike of large 
flowers marbled and shaded salmon-rose with faint orange glow, and having a blood- 
crimson blotch, tall S 6...0 6 
Princeplne, a handsome showy variety with large rich scarlet flowers, ht. 35 
Award of Merit National Gladiolus Society 1912 10 6...1 o 
Victory, a very beautiful variety, producing long spikes of well-formed flowers of a 
pale delicate primrose shaded cream, ht. 3 ft ® 6...0 7 
X GLADIOLUS BRENCHLEYENSIS. 
The Large-flowered Vermilion-Scarlet Gladiolus. 
This well-known handsome Gladiolus blooms just before the Gladiolus Gandavensis varieties, and is 
one of the most valuable for bedding. By successional plantings outdoors from end of March to May, 
a brilliant display of bloom may be had from middle of July to late autumn. A fine effect may be 
produced by massing this Gladiolus with Galtonia candicans, the snowy white spikes of which top 
the Scarlet Gladioli ; both bloom about the same time. p- i<» p. doz. 
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Good Flowering bulbs per 1000, 70/- 7 6 ..I 3 
Extra Selected bulbs to 6...1 6 
Very large bulbs ts 0...2 3 
X GLADIOLUS PRINCEPS. 
A magnificent showy Gladiolus of tall robust habit, bearing very large open flowers of a brilliant 
dark scarlet, with white stripe down centre of petal ; remarkably effective in the flower border, 
per 100, 25/- ; per doz. 3/6 
VARIOUS BEAUTIFUL GLADIOLI. 
Plant the bulbs from end of March to April. 
each— j. d 
xChildsii, Mixed Hybrids, a fine robust race of Gladioli, resulting from a cross be- 
tween G. Nanceianus yarietiea and Lemoine’a Butterfly Gladioli, and blooming about 
the same time. The flowers are very large, and produced on long sturdy spikes, and range 
in colour from roses and pinks to reds and fiery scarlets ; valuable for grouping in herbaceous 
borders, ht. 3 to 5 ft 1°°. i°/6 : P« ^oz. 1/6 - 
X New Large-flowered Hybrids of Nanceianus and Childsii, a fine 
tall robust strain with mostly large flowers of all shades of colour, including blues, lavenders 
and purples, some beautifully blotched, ht. 3I to 4J ft per 100, 15/- ; per doz. 2/3 
X Excelsior Hybrids, another beautiful strain, being hybrids of Gandavensis x Nancei- 
anus. The flowers are very large and open, and range in colour from salmon-scarlet to 
soft rose and blush-rose, with scarlet and cream-coloured blotch or crimson blotch on a 
white ground, ht. 3 to 3^ ft 1°°. 12/6 i per doz. 1/9 — 
X Mikado, a beautiful break from Gladiolus Brenchleyensls, having the same long hand- 
some spikes but colour a pale blush-rose, shading to cream, with lower petal striped crimson 
on a primrose-coloured ground too, 12/6 ; per doz. 1/9 
xprimulinus (Maid of the Mist), a rare and lovely species found growing in the 
neighbourhood of the Victoria Falls on the Zambesi River, where the spray at times 
completely covers it. The flowers, which are of a beautiful soft primrose-yellow, are of 
quaint hooded form and borne on spikes 2 lo 3 ft. high, from July to August. Easily 
grown in pots in a cold greenhouse or out of doors in warm localities ; while m full growth 
the plants should be given a liberal supply of water per doz. 15/- I 6 
X primullnus hybrids, containing some beautiful shades of soft primrose, pale buff-yellow, 
apricot, pale copper and other delicate art shades, ht. 2J ft per doz. 12/6 i 3 
