Plate 315. 
GLADIOLUS, MILTON, Souchet. 
In the plates which we have in previous volumes of the 
6 Floral Magazine ’ given of this beautiful autumnal flower, 
we have had recourse to the rich and varied collection of 
seedlings received by Mr. John Standish, of the Eoyal N ursery, 
Ascot; but in the present instance we have selected one of the 
very beautiful varieties raised by M. Souchet, the renowned 
French grower, and sent out last autumn by the French nur¬ 
serymen. 
As it is now needless to give any directions for the cultiva¬ 
tion of a flower so well known as the Gladiolus, we shall, we 
think, do more service by giving our opinion of those which 
were introduced last autumn, as taken from notes made from 
those which flowered in our own garden, merely adding that 
we have found more certainly than ever, that small bulbs pro¬ 
duce as effective spikes of bloom, and even perhaps more effec¬ 
tive, than larger bulbs. 
Milton (the variety figured) is a flower of large size and sub¬ 
stance ; the spike is very long, and if it has a fault it is that 
the flowers are a little too far apart; the colour is a creamy- 
white, tinted with rose, flamed with carmine, and with purple 
feathers. Shakespeare has a very fine spike, white ground, 
flamed with bright rosy cerise, purple throat, and large, 
purplish-crimson feather on lower lip,—a well-shaped and ex¬ 
cellent flower. Eurydice has a fine spike, white, beautifully 
flamed with crimson-purplish feathers on yellow ground; it 
bears a good deal of resemblance to Eleanor Norman , a dower 
of English origin, figured by us some years ago. Lord Byron , 
a flower of splendid colour, but somewhat too pointed in the 
petal; the individual blooms are set on the stem, much in the 
