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FLOWER ROOTS — Gladiolus. 
GLADIOLI. Section III. ( continued ). 
Per doz. 
s. d. 
Each. 
s. d. 
I 
Per 
8 . 
doz. 
d. 
Oscar, brilliant cherry and white, fine . . 
Osiris, purple and white 5 G 
Othello, light orange red 3 G 
Pellonia, rose, striped, tinted carmine . . 3 6 
Penelope, cream white, carmine striped. . 7 G 
Peter Lawson, rosy lilac and white 
Pline, light cherry and white 
Pluton, very dark scarlet , white spots . . 
President E. de St. Jean, bright, red, 
striped and shaded, large flower , flue 
spihe 4 6 
Prince of Wales, bright red, white and 
violet spots 2 6 
Princesse Mathilde, light rose and car- 
mine 10 6 
Princess of Wales, white, carmine shaded 
Raphael, deep vermilion 7 G 
Reine Hortense, white , rose, and carmine 
Reine Victoria, pure white, large violet 
spots 
Rembrandt, bright scarlet o G 
Roi Leopold, rose, orange striped, white 
spots 
Shakspeare, white, rosy carmine centre, 
extra flne 
Sir William Hooker, bright cerise , 
blotched carmine and pure white 
Solfaterro,yrwe pure yellow 
Stephenson, brilliant vermilion and white 
Stuart Low, rose , violet shaded 
Sulphurous, sulphur coloured 9 0 
Thalie, white, lilac carmine 
Tli6r6se, bright rose 
Thunberg, light cherry orange, pure white 
spots 
Triomphe d’Engliien, carmine , var 3 G 
Turenne, currant red, spotted 
Vellida, light rose and lilac 
Vicomtesse de Belleval, fine blush, 
spotted carmine 
Victor Verdier, brilliant scarlet, light 
carmine spots 7 0 
Vulcain, scarlet, purple velvet 10 0 
Walter Scott, delicate flesh, red and yel- 
low var 
Cheap Varieties for Shrubberies and Woodland Walks. 
The first three sorts flower very early. 
Per 100. Per doz. 
s. d. s. d. 
Byzantinus, rosy qmrple 5 6 0 9 
Communis albus, white 5 6 0 9 
// rose us, bright rose 5 G 0 9 
12 each of the above six sorts , 7s. 6d. 
Per 100. 
s. d. 
Floribundus, white, purple striped 12 G 
Queen Victoria, bright scarlet, and white 12 6 
Ramosus, bright, salmon rose and white. . 12 6 
25 each of the above six sorts, 12a 1 . 6d. 
Each. 
s. d . 
5 G 
0 10 
2 0 
1 G 
2 6 
0 4 
1 3 
1 3 
1 6 
0 9 
1 0 
2 G 
Per doz. 
6-. d. 
2 0 
2 0 
2 0 
Gladiolus Brenchleyensis, the finest of all ; large handsome spikes of brilliant scarlet, first sizo (extra largo 
bulbs) per 100, 12 s. ; per doz., 2s. 
n u second size (medium flowering bulbs) per 100, 10s. (id. ; per doz., Is, Qd* 
Special estimates for large quantities . 
MIXED GLADIOLI. 
Fine Mixed per 100, 12s. 6 d.; per doz., 2s. 
Extra Choice Mixed French Seedlings per 100, 21s. ; per doz., 3s. 
MISCELLANEOUS HARDY AND OTHER BULBS. 
Into this class come many things of the highest heanty, and which are in many cases insufficiently known or 
appreciated in our gardens. It is a class that is included in many catalogues, but, from generally presenting not a 
few subjects of inferior character, the really good and effective plants have been neglected with the worthless. Our 
object in this paper will be to seloot the best, and give hints on their ways and capabilities. None shall be mentioned 
which we have not known from personal experience in its culturo to deserve a wider circle of friends ; among them 
are some very old friends and some strangers. First, then, of 
Bulbocodium vernum, as it is the earliest Spring flower we have. It is an old flower, and one that was formerly 
grown as single specimens in small pots in frames, <Sic., which prevented duo notice being taken of its morits as a 
thoroughly hardy Spring bulb. When planted rather thickly in patches, or as an edging to a neat bed, then, indeed, 
its effect, when the rosy purple buds come over ground in Spring, is quite distinct and very beautiful. Tho flower 
itself, when fully opened, is not remarkable for much beauty, but it is the effect of the large swelling buds that pleases. 
It begins to show long before tho earliest Crocus or Snowdrop. It is much reoommended in tho Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
and is really an addition to our Spring gardening resources, particularly when it can be sold as cheap as a Croous for 
nsing in quantity. The effect is good for a long time in Spring. 
The Snowflake and the Snowdrop next merit our attention. The Spring Snowflako ( Leucojum vernum) is a 
fine Snowdrop-like flower, bnt large and neat in habit. It is perfectly hardy, but dwarf and iree to do in sandy 
garden soil. It has been discovered wild in Dorsetshire, and this will no doubt add to its interest for many readers. 
Of tho Snowdrop, above all others, it can hardly be necessary to speak. It should bo grown by the hundred in 
every garden, in beds, clumps, edgings, and shrubberies, &c. We have often wondered why small beds of mixtures 
are not oftener planted — say, for instance, Snowdrops and Bulbocodium, or the finely coloured Crocuses and Squills. 
We have done so, and with a far better effect than results from growing one kind alone and unmixed. The Crimean 
Snowdrop (Galanthut plicatus) deserves a word. It grows quite as free as the common kind, is larger, and will one 
day, we hope, be nearly as common. 
The popular little Winter Aconite comes into our miscellaneous selection among the earliest; of it little need 
be said, except that it is one of the freest and hardiest of all known plants, and admirable for dwarf edgings for tho 
Spring garden, or as tufts on the edge of the mixed border. It will grow anywhere. 
Erythronium (Dog's-tooth Violet) is far too lamons and pretty a plant either when in leaf or flower to be omitted 
from this lot; They should be planted in very sandy soil, and used among the dwarfest of Spring bulbs. 
FOE LIST OF NEW AND BARE PLANTS, SEE PAGE 37. 
