Plate 268. 
GLADIOLUS, SIX! JAMES CLARK. 
The past season has been a wonderful one for the Gladiolus. 
Where care was given to watering during the early part of the 
summer, when the weather was so dry, and the bulbs were not 
allowed to suffer for that cause, which they are very apt to 
do,—growers have been amply rewarded; we have grown them 
ourselves for some years, but never had we such fine spikes of 
bloom, or less loss among the bulbs. The season was indeed a 
very early one; when the Crystal Palace show took place on 
the 30th of August, we had very few blooms left, and when the 
Brighton show was held on the 14th of September, where 
we took first prize last year for twenty-four, we could not, 
had we tried our utmost, have cut six spikes of bloom. 
We had the opportunity of seeing, previous to their bloom¬ 
ing, a fine collection grown by Mr. J. F. Lombard, near Dublin; 
and, when in bloom, Mr. StandislTs large stock of his own seed¬ 
lings at Ascot, and we never saw them finer. The flower we 
figure is one of his seedlings, and is from a bloom in our own 
garden. 
There were four new varieties sent out by M. Souchet, of 
Fontainebleau, last season, and they are all flowers of first-rate 
quality. Madame Furtado is a beautiful flower, of the same 
style as Mr. Standish’s Eleanor Norman , figured by us last year, 
delicate French-white, striped and barred with rose ; Meyerbeer 
is a glowing brilliant scarlet, flamed with vermilion, and with 
amaranth red spots,—a noble spike; Madame de Sevigne, clear 
rose, largely spotted, and lined with pure white, colour very 
fresh; Fulton , transparent vermilion-red, very lively, large dower, 
of magnificent colour, somewhat in the style of James Veitch; 
these are all excellent flowers. Amongst the newer kinds of 
