grower; Blue Jay and Baron Hulot are blue gray and purple respec- 
tively, while a beautiful standard white with large flowers and red- 
dish violet markings is Peace, Mrs. Francis King, (named for our 
Mrs. King) is a wonderful flame pink, with many flowers open at a 
time and one of the most brilliant of the Gladioli. Niagara is a light 
yellow; Simrise, a canary yellow; and Golden King, a clear golden shade 
with red markings; while Princeps and Empress of India are shades 
of crimson and dark red. 
The above are, of course, only a fraction of the varieties which 
have been on the market for some years. 
A deep sandy loam is best for the Gladiolus, which will grow 
in any good garden soil, but as is the case with all bulbs manure 
must be kept altogether away from the corms. During hot dry 
weather, they should be cultivated, or mulched, and watered if 
feasible. When ripened off, they should be taken up, the stalks 
cut close to the bulb, the old corms removed, and allowed to dry in 
the sun. They should then be put in paper bags, and stored in a dry 
place where the temperature averages 40° F. Corms two years from 
bulblets, are by growers considered the best for fine blOom, but there 
seems to be some divergence of opinion as to just the age the corms 
begin to deteriorate; the writer has many which have flowered freely 
in her garden for six years, and as a new corm is formed each year 
from which the blooms spring, why may they not, barring accident or 
disease, be of nearly perpetual life? 
New As a cut flower we, of course, know the Gladiolus best, and the 
Gladioli finest specimens for that purpose result if the stalk is cut when the 
first bud opens, and the spike wiU go on blooming for some days. 
Infinite and nearly endless are the color combinations made possible 
by the variety of shade and form presented in the modern Gladiolus, 
and did space permit, pages of description might be written of color 
schemes of wonderful and entrancing beauty, combinations to suit 
every taste, and to harmonize with every known kind of decoration. 
The following are some of the most notable of the new varieties, 
some offered for the first time in the 192 1 catalogs: 
Lene Graetz, pure white; Deutschland, pure pink; Conspicuous, 
lavender; Prince of Wales, salmon; Dorothy McKibbon, early flower- 
ing apple-blossom pink; Le Marechal Foch, pure rose, healthy and 
strong grower; Purple Glory (Kundred) deepest velvety maroon red, 
with almost black blotches, ruffled; Louise, bright lavender, maroon 
blotch, six inches across, the largest Gladiolus yet produced; Willbrink, 
plush pink, early, and profuse bloomer. 
CoMBiNA- Some tried combinations may be of interest; the possibihties of 
TiONS the use of this beautiful flower are very great. In an entirely white 
planting of both perennials and annuals, Peace has for some seasons 
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