OCTOBER. 
289 
GLADIOLUS—MRS. REYNOLDS HOLE. 
(Plate 181 .) 
Our present illustration represents one of the new varieties 
of Gladiolus, for which the Bagshot nursery of Mr. Standish 
has become famous. On a former occasion we figured two 
remarkably fine varieties from the same source, namely, John 
Standish^ a rich crimson, with the highest quality of any 
variety we have met with; and Mrs. Standish, a very beautiful 
white, with feathered lip. The former of these, we regret to 
learn, was accidentally lost during last winter. That now 
figured, and named in compliment to the wife of the Rev. S. 
Reynolds Hole, is of a novel character, presenting well-defined 
richly-coloured bars on a white ground, which give it a dis¬ 
tinctly striped character. It is very beautiful, of average size, 
with all the desirable qualities of form and substance, and is in 
all respects a perfect painted lady. The colour is white, marked 
with numerous bars and streaks of rosy crimson, the markings 
being more crowded and confluent towards the ends of the 
sepaline segment, so as to form richly-coloured variegated 
tips. The large upper petaline segment is longer than the 
sepaline parts, which it resembles in colour, but is rather less 
freely marked; while the two smaller lower petaline divisions 
which are rose flaked at the top, are dashed with a rich 
creamy buff lower down, and as well as the lowest sepal have 
a crimson feather-like marking up the centre. At the mouth 
of the contracted tubular part there is a rosy star. Our 
figure, drawn from some of the earlier blooms, does not show 
the flaked tips of the two small petaline divisions, nor the 
bold feather-like mark just described, which are present in 
the specimen from which our notes were drawn up. The 
flowers are arranged in two opposite rows so as to stand back 
to back, which is the least desirable quality presented by this 
otherwise charming new variety. 
We need not here occupy space with remarks on the 
culture of these now favourite flowers, nor on their adapta¬ 
bility for the autumn decoration of flower gardens either in 
beds or borders, nor on their remarkable quality of endurance, 
and of continuous development when cut for the in-door 
flower vase. All these points have been already touched 
upon in our preceding volumes. We prefer rather to invite 
attention to some of the structural peculiarities of the race 
of hybrid Gladioli which is now bidding high for popular 
favour, with the view of directing into a proper channel the 
current v. hich is setting strongly in the direction of raising 
new seedling varieties. 
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