September 13, 1890. 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
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NEW GLADIOLI. 
(1 LeMOINEI NukE Bleue. —The variety here named 
literally translated means Blue Cloud, and gives rise to 
the hope of being the fore-runner of a new strain of 
Gladioli, with flowers of various shades of blue. The 
colour is difficult to determine, and may be described 
as violet-purple externally, and much paler internally, 
with a tint of slaty or lilac-blue. The lower three 
segments internally have each a large deep violet 
blotch on the lower half, with a short median pale 
yellow band. The yellow tip to the lower segments, 
so well marked in most of the varieties of the hybrid 
strain named G. Lemoinei, is here entirely replaced by 
a certain shade of blue. 
G. L. Louis Thibaut. —The flowers of this variety 
are open, deep purple, with a large crimson blotch at 
the base of two of the lower 
segments, and a white band 
of much smaller size along 
the centre of the three lower 
segments, near their tips. 
G. Lemoinei P. P. P.— 
Such is the curious name 
given to a form of Lemoine’s 
strain of Gladioli, which has 
been deiived by hybridising 
G. purpureo-auratus with 
some of the garden forms of 
G. gandavensis. The P. P. P. 
variety has large open flowers 
of a brilliant scarlet, shaded 
with crimson at the base and 
along the centre. 
E. V. Hallock. — The 
flowers of this variety are 
also of large size and of a 
creamy flesh colour, with a 
large, obovate, crimson blotch 
on each of the three lower 
segments, which are tipped 
with yellow. 
Le Grand Carnot. —The 
outer segments are orange- 
red or scarlet, while the three 
lower ones are more brilliant, 
with a large creamy yellow 
blotch on each. The 
variety is a robust and 
strong-growing one, with 
large and showy flowers. 
All of the above five 
varieties were exhibited by 
Messrs. V. Lemoine & Sons, 
Nancy, France, at a meet¬ 
ing of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society, on the 9th 
inst. A First Class Cer¬ 
tificate was awarded to 
Nuee Bleue; and each of 
the others received an Award 
of Merit. 
Leonard Kelway.— The 
flowers of this variety, which 
belongs to the G. gandaven¬ 
sis type, are large, open, 
and deep crimson with a 
purple edge, but sometimes 
they are flaked with scarlet 
on a purple ground. There 
is also a creamy white 
stripe on each of the three 
lower segments. The speci¬ 
mens shown by Messrs. 
Kelway & Sons, Langport, Somerset, at the same time 
and place as the above, had eight to ten open flowers 
on each spike, and about as many unopened buds. 
An Award of Merit was granted the variety. 
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NEW DAHLIAS. 
Dr. Peters. —The flower heads of this Cactus Dahlia 
are of medium size and crimson, shading off to yellow 
at the tips of the florets ; but even there a tint of 
crimson is more or less evident in some cases. The 
florets are oval and slightly grooved or nearly flat. 
Cannell’ s Favourite. — This is another Cactus 
variety with large, orange flower heads. The florets 
are also large, blunt, or slightly 3-toothed at the apex, 
and notable for their great size and loose open arrange¬ 
ment. Laciniata aurea. —The neatness ofthis variety 
almost removes it from amongst the Cactus race of 
Dahlias, yet this neatness alone recommends it for 
extended cultivation. The heads are large, light 
yellow, and very full; while the florets are numerous, 
narrow, closely arranged, and more or less deeply trifid 
at the tips. Maid of Kent.— The best term for this 
Dahlia would be to describe it as a decorative rather 
than a Cactus variety, owing to the regularity with 
which the florets are arranged. The latter are crimson 
with white tips, which give to the large head a pretty 
and effective appearance. The florets are further more 
strictly convolute than in any other of the above kinds. 
All four were exhibited by Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, 
Swanley, Kent, at the meeting of the Royal Horticul¬ 
tural Society on Tuesday last, when each received an 
Award of Merit. 
Rubens. —The flower heads of this variety are of 
Cactus Dahlias : How to Set up for Exhibition. 
medium size for a Pompon, and very neat. The florets 
are pink, merging into crimson at the base and along 
the edges towards the centre of the head. Marion.— 
Pompons seem to increase in beauty the smaller they 
are, and the present is no exception. The florets are 
neat and compactly arranged, and seem to vary in 
colour according to age. The centre is of a deep red, 
and this tint is more or less evident on the inner 
surface of the florets, while the outer face is rosy purple. 
The daiker colour seems to shine through, however* 
when looked at in certain directions, giving a pleasing 
blending of colours. Lokina. —This is an exhibition 
Dahlia of large size, and about uniformly buff-yellow, 
with two red lines running along each floret. The 
head is full and high in the centre,with closely arranged 
florets. The three last varieties were shown at the same 
time and place as the preceding ones by Mr. Charles 
Turner, Slough, when Awards of Merit were granted 
them. 
Crimson Beauty. —This Pompon variety was shown 
by Mr. T. S. Ware, Hale Farm Nurseries, Tottenham, 
and was accorded an Award of Merit. The heads are 
of medium size and deep crimson, with close and com¬ 
pactly arranged florets. 
Black Prince. —The heads of this Cactus variety 
are of large size, and velvety blackish maroon. The 
florets are also large, loosely arranged, broad and 
rounded at the points. An Award of Merit was 
granted the vaiiety when shown at the Drill Hall on 
Tuesday last, by Mr. John GreeD, Norfolk Nurseries, 
Dereham. It is a bold and striking form. 
CACTUS Or’dECORATIVE 
DAHLIAS. 
Since the first appearance of Juarezi, popularly known 
as the Cactus Dahlia, 
practically a new race of 
garden flowers has been 
developed. Comparatively 
few of them run upon the 
old lines, and are described 
sometimes as decorative 
Dahlias. Although the 
florets are loosely arranged, 
they lack the elongated and 
pointed character so well 
marked in Juarezi and 
Professor Baldwin. The 
latter is simply a paler 
orange variety of the 
former. 
In the numerous forms, 
however, passing under the 
name of Cactus Dahlias, we 
get away from the stiff 
formality of the exhibition 
varieties, and possess at 
once a class fit for garden 
decoration or for mixing 
with cut flowers. The heads 
are lighter than the more 
solid exhibition kinds, and 
when mixed with foliage 
have an attractive appear¬ 
ance. Dahlias, whether 
single, Pompon or Cactus, 
are, however, greatly 
improved by being wired or 
fixed in wire stands, and 
this becomes almost indis¬ 
pensable for show purposes. 
It follows that what would 
improve them on an exhibi¬ 
tion stand, would also show 
them off to the best 
advantage in dwelling 
rooms, with modifications 
to suit the circumstances. 
The accompanying illustra¬ 
tion shows a good method 
of arranging flowers and 
foliage together for exhibi¬ 
tion pui poses, where the 
spectator is supposed to 
view them on one side only. 
In dwelling rooms, where 
the flowers are meant to 
occupy the centre of the 
table and to be seen from 
all sides, a kind of wire stand 
should be employed in which 
the flowers may be made t 0 
face every direction ; a separate wire, hooked or looped 
at the end, is necessary to hold each flower in its 
respective position. 
The range of colour amongst Cactus Dahlias is 
already almost endless ; indeed, colour amongst them is 
much more varied than is the form, so that in the 
latter respect there is yet room for improvement. 
Striped and edged varieties are not so common amongst 
Cactus Dahlias as in the case of single kinds, notwith¬ 
standing the fact that they are very much admired 
when the colours are well defined. Lady Kerrison (see 
p. 21) is a beautiful Picotee-edged variety. The 
florets are long, flat, somewhat pointed, and of a 
beautiful amber-yellow with a darker edge. It is quite 
distinct in its way and ought to be found in every 
collection. Like most others of this class it is much 
more floriferous than the old Juarezi. We are indebted 
to Messrs. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, Kent, for an 
opportunity of figuring it, 
