GLADI'OLUS GANDAVEN'SIS. 
GHENT CORNFLAG. 
Class. Order. 
TRI4NDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
IRIDACE JE. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
Origin. 
4 feet. 
August. 
Bulb. 
in 1843. 
No. 1133. 
The name, Gladiolus, is founded on the Latin 
gladius, a sword; from the shape of its leaves. 
The subject now figured, probably, received its 
trivial name, Gandavensis, from Van Houtte, nur- 
seryman of Ghent, who first made it known ; not 
that it originated with him, for we owe its origin 
to the gardener of the Due d’Aremberg, at Enghien. 
One of the largest, and the most splendid 
Gladiolus, with which we are acquainted; it excels 
the Gladiolus Natalensis, No. 536 ; indeed, it is by 
hybridisation, as one means, and by the diligent 
employment of all those powers which are placed 
at our command by Him who created every plant 
in its present beauty, that we promote the advance- 
ment originally ordained. The wild plant, the 
untamed animal, the human mind, are all pro- 
gressive, capable of — intended for — advancement 
in their respective ranks of creation. 
For the specimen from which our drawing was 
made, we are obliged to the kind attentions of J. 
Willmore, Esq. of Oldford, who possesses a splen- 
did collection of the new varieties of Gladioli. To 
his energetic gardener, Mr. J. Cole, we are also 
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