which the Gladiolus should be exhibited,—the discussion having 
arisen from the fact of one of the exhibitors at the Crystal 
Palace placing his flowers in the concave leaves of the Aloe, 
and thus showing those flowers which were double-faced to a 
single front. We think that they ought to follow the example 
of all florists’ flowers, and be shown without any foliage, for we 
believe that then the true character and value of the varieties 
would be better seen. 
Eleanor Norman is a flower of great delicacy of colour, and 
indeed quite unique. The ground colour is white, but so largely 
suffused with pink and flaked with pink stripes as to leave very 
little of it to be seen; in the centre of each of the lower petals 
is a bright crimson feather, while in the sprouts there are semi¬ 
circular spots of deep crimson. It obtained a first-class certifi¬ 
cate from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society, and has been greatly admired wherever exhibited. 
