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Joseph Breck & Sons’ 
SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS. 
GLADIOLUS. 
GLADIOLUS. 
They are the most stately and effective of our summer 
flowering bulbs, being of rodust, erect growth, with green 
sword shaped leaves and magnificent flower-scapes rising 
from two to four feet in height. The colors comprise the 
most brilliant of orange, scarlet and vermilion tints upon 
yellow and orange grounds, including a graduated scale of 
intermediate shades, from white and rosy blush and salmon 
rose tints, to a salmon red and nankeen; from blush-white 
with purple-crimson throat and marginal streak of pink, 
to light rosy salmon grounds, with flakes of deep carmine. 
A succession of bloom may be had from July to September, 
by planting at intervals from April to June, preserving the 
strongest bulbs for the latest planting. Their culture is 
very simple; they will grow in any ordinary garden mould, 
but succeed best in good earth, manured with well-rotted 
horse-dung. The bulbs are taken up in the fall and placed 
in a dry cellar, protected from frost. 
We have made selections with reference to contrast of 
colors, time of flowering, and quality of bloom, and will 
serve as a guide to those unacquainted with the sorts. The 
seedlings offered abound in the finest varieties, which com¬ 
pare favorably with the higher-priced named sorts. The 
mixtures contain many good sorts. 
Price. 
12 varieties named 
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mixed 
light colors 
seedlings.. 
$ 1.00 
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1.00 
12 “ “ “ very choice. 1.50 
On purchaser’s selection a discount of 10 per cent, from 
catalogue prices will be made when one dozen varieties are 
selected. Twenty per cent, on one hundred varieties. 
Adonis, rosy salmon, carmine margin. Price, 10 cents. 
Apollon, rosy lilac, large stain of rose. Price, 50 cents. 
Aristote, rose, crimson stripes. Price, 10 cents. 
Arsinoe, fine satin rose, flamed with bright crimson. 
Price, 20 cents. 
Bernard de Jussieu, violet, shaded cherry and purple. 
Price, 15 cents. 
Bijou, cherry, flamed scarlet. Price, 15 cents. 
Brenchiliensis, rich scarlet. Price, 10 cents. 
Calypso, rose, blotched with carmine. Price, 15 cents. 
Canary, clear yellow, shaded with rose. Price, 20 cents. 
Canova, long spike of very large white, carmine spotted 
flowers. Price, 75 cents. 
Celine, white and rose ground, carmine stripes. Price, 20c. 
Ceres, pure white, stained with purplish rose. Price, 30 cts. 
Charles Dickens, light rose blazed and striped with car- 
minate rose. Price, 20 cents. 
Cherubini, large flower, perfect shape, with ground largely 
blazed with carminate violet. Price, 40 cents. 
Citrinus, light yellow, lower petals dark yellow. Price, 35c. 
Cleopatra, lilac, tinged with violet Price, 20 cents. 
Colbert, red, white blotch. Price, 20 cents. 
Couranti Fulgens, dark crimson. Price, 10 cents. 
Delecatissima, white, slightly tinged with carmine lilac. 
Price, 50 cents. 
Diana, white, flaked with red. Price, 30 cents. 
Don Juan, orange and fire red. Price, 10 cents. 
Dr. Lindley, light rose, blazed with cherry. Price, 50 cents. 
Due de Malakoff, orange red, blazed with lighter stripes. 
Price, 20 cents. 
