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SELECT GLADIOLI. 
GLADIOLUS. 
(HYBRIDS OF GANDAVENSIS.) 
There are few flowers more showy and beautiful than the Gladiolus, and the varieties of the 
Oandavensis section are perfectly hardy and easily grown, whilst their erect and stately growth, and 
long spikes of flowers, developing themselves successively, never fail to win admirers. 
To facilitate the cultivation of this highly decorative plant, a few remarks may be necessary to 
some : — 
The best and safest time for planting is from the beginning of April to the end of May, when a 
continuous bloom may be assxired from July to September. 
Soil is not much a point for consideration, so long as it is not stiff and consolidated ; but it is 
important that it should be deeply dug previous to planting. 
Large bulbs sho\Jd be plants from 3 to 4 inches, and smaller bulbs 2 inches deep. 
During excessively dry weather, copious waterings are recommended. 
When any bulbs show signs of growth before the time mentioned alcove, they should be potted 
and kept in a eool frame until the proper season for planting out. 
This beautiful tribe of plants should 
be largely planted everywhere. 
Orders are booked throughout 
the year at the following prices, 
and the bulbs supplied in Janu- 
ary, February, or March. 
1 2 choice named varieties, 3s., 4s., 
6s., 9s. & 12s. 
According to Selection. 
„ ,, 6s., 9s., 12s. to 24s. 
According to Selection. 
„ ,, 12s., 18s., 24s. to 50s. 
According to Selection. 
„ „ 24s., 35s., 45s. to 90s. 
According to Selection. 
GANDAVEXSIS, Finest Mixed Hybrids. 
The flowers of these magnificent hybrids are of great 
beauty, possessing great diversity of colour, many being 
striped and splashed in the most handsome manner. 
Invaluable for cutting. 
Various colours, 12s. per 100; Is. 9//. per dozen. 
LEMOIXE’S HARDY SPOTTED HYBRIDS. 
Tliese Gladiolus are of the easiest culture, and succeed in 
every soil. The flowers of this new race are of large 
tjize, perfect shape, and the most beautiful colours. 
Finest mixed blotched varieties, Is. 6//, perdoz. ; lO^.per 100. 
Finest named varieties, 3s. 6^?., 5s. & 7s. 6d. per doz. 
LEMOIXEI. 
A handsome hybrid early -flowering variety, 3/6 per doz. 
MARIE LEMOIXE. 
Exceptionally beautiful. Should he planted largely. 
Is. 6rf. per dozen ; 10s. per 100. 
BREXCHLEYEXSIS. 
This beautiful and showy bright scarlet species is most 
effective when planted in quantity in beds or borders. 
Selected bulbs, 6s. Qd. per 100, or 60s. per 1,000. 
SXOW-WHITE. 
A magnificent White Gladiolus, witli large and elegantly 
formed flowers of great substance slightly shaded with 
cream, a faint line of purple extending half-way through 
LEMOINE’S GLADIOLUS. the lower petal. 15,., per <lox. 
