Plate 36. 
VARIETIES OE GLADIOLUS. 
Gladiolus gandavensis , vars. 
Few flowers are more attractive in gardens during the au¬ 
tumnal months than the fine varieties of Gladiolus which have 
been lately produced under the fostering care of cultivators. 
They have a richness and gorgeousness of character which is 
all their own, and a variety of tint and marking which is abso¬ 
lutely enchanting. We very much regret that our page is ut¬ 
terly inadequate to do justice to the effect produced by plants 
producing their flowers in spikes which are not unfrequently a 
yard in length, and of which only a few detached blossoms can 
be imperfectly shown. Those we have selected for illustration 
were furnished by Mr. Standish, of Bagshot. The variety called 
Madame Leseble, forming our centre figure, is one of the finest 
light-coloured French sorts: the others are seedlings bloomed 
this year by Mr. Standish amongst a very large variety of highly 
meritorious kinds. 
The Madame Leseble Gladiolus is a free-growing plant, of me¬ 
dium height, throwing up its flower-spikes successively. The 
flowers are large and well-formed, with something of a symme¬ 
trical arrangement, pure white, beautifully streaked and painted 
with deep rosy-purple on the three lower segments of the peri¬ 
anth, the segments being broad and of good outline. 
Plate 36.— Gladiolus gandavensis, varieties :— 
Eig. 1. Madame Leseble : flowers large, white, marked with deep rosy- 
purple on the lower segments. 
Eig. 2. John Standish: flowers large, of remarkable substance, rich 
deep crimson-scarlet, the lower petaline segment marked with white 
and flushed with purple. 
Eig. 3. Mrs. Moore : flowers full size, symmetrically triangular, delicate 
salmon-pink, the two lower segments white towards the base. 
