The Garden Magazine, April, 1923 
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GLADIOLUS AMERICA AND PANAMA 
Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Photo 
Splendid, spear-like spikes whose virile character is offset by the spraying elegance of standard Lantana and 
the star-like delicacy of Clematis paniculata creeping underfoot. Garden of Mr. W. R. Coe, Oyster Bay, L. I. 
Pink (Black) is hardly a fitting name as its color is a rosy scarlet-red; 
71 days. A deep scarlet blooming in 75 days is La Cordaire (Vilmorin- 
Andrieux). A variety which will attract the eye from a distance, so 
intense is the brilliant scarlet color—almost a self—is Beaconflame (Von- 
del); 74 days. Another of great brilliancy of coloring, a flaming scarlet 
of highest quality, is Chautauqua Red (C. Zeestraten); 71 days. Kund- 
erd’s Circe flowers in 65 days. In color it is a blackish cardinal scarlet. 
Another black beauty, lighter however than the preceding, is Captain 
Asher Carter Baker (Diener); 76 days. It is a blackish scarlet overlaid 
on true scarlet, and lighter in the throat. Groffs Dominion is a dark 
glowing scarlet, blooming in 71 days. 
Rose, Magenta, and Crimson.—A purplish red beauty is Chiffon- 
etie (Kunderd); 68 days. Cinnamon Bear also from Kunderd, shows its 
blooms in 71 days, a violet red in fine clear color tones. Pink Beauty 
(Van Thol) is the earliest Gladiolus that 1 know, giving in 62 days clear 
carmine rose blooms. It has a fault, however, in too short a spike. 
Diener’s Sunset is a striped bloom, rose over rose pink, appearing in 67 
days. Kunderd’s 1910 Rose is a deep rich rose shade, coming into 
flower in 70 days. In Vivid (Groff) we have about the earliest of this 
shade, a deep wine red, almost a purple; 71 days. Groff’s Rosella is a 
beautiful true magenta made up of several tones, all clear; 67 to 79 
days. A word about magenta in this connection: it is not the muddy 
purplish color so often associated with this color term, but the real 
thing! Goliath from Velthuys requires 75 days, in color a deep claret 
red. Mrs. IVillard Richardson (Diener) is a beautifully blended bloom 
of dark scarlet and crimson with a lighter throat, requiring a growing 
season of 76 days before its fine Amaryllis-like flowers attain their 
perfection. 
Pastel Colors. —With a general color tone of gray, lavender, and 
darker blotches, Wm. Copeland by Velthuys is in flower in 77 days. 
Velthuys also sent out Master IViehertus, a bloom of dusky rosy 
lavender tones; 71 days. Rose Ash, originated by Metzner and 
jointly sent out with Salbach, is that color generally described as 
ashes-of-roses. It has fine decorative possibilities and is in bloom 
in 78 days. Atlas, from Gravereau, flowers in 70 to 72 days, and 
in general color is a deep rosy lavender. Diener’s Mrs. IVm. Kent, 
with blooms of a light buff yellow blended with pinkish gray, is a 
beauty; 78 days. 
Lavender-Pinks. —These are the true orchid-flowering kinds. Amer¬ 
ica credited to Banning and several others, long an old favorite, still 
has many friends. Its clear lavender-pink blooms may be had in 78 
days. In a deep rosy lavender with purple tints, truly regal in 
beauty, Diener has sent out one that is a favorite everywhere— Sarah 
Lillie, which blooms in 74 days. A newcomer not to be denied a 
place in the sun was sent out recently by Coleman under the name of 
Sweet Lavender ; 79 days. It blends from a light pinkish lavender to a 
creamy yellow in the throat with clear magenta throat blotches. 
Miss Maud Fay (Diener) is a clear lavender-pink with lighter midribs 
and throat; 77 days. 
