at Cedar Acres. It is a perfect reproduc¬ 
tion of the color scheme. To get a better 
idea of the planting, open the booklet so 
that you may see both covers at once. 
This season many other plantings will 
be made, giving practical demonstrations 
of the judicious use of the Gladiolus in 
color combinations and in connection with 
other (lowers. It is now a great factor in 
any gardening scheme, and the demand is 
greater each year. The neat, erect, grace¬ 
ful style of growth and adaptability to 
common soils render it fitted to give a very 
gorgeous and telling effect to gardens of 
the most select or extensive scale. 
It associates well with Hollyhocks, 
Pyrethrums or Phlox, and an endless 
variety of plantings suggest themselves, 
with the daintily colored annuals. It is a 
source of pleasure all through the summer 
when planted with the ever-blooming 
snapdragon, which forms a mulch for the 
Gladioli. Planted in clumps in front of 
shrubbery, they give bloom and pleasure 
from early July until the first envious, 
sneaping frost. In this position, nothing 
gives greater satisfaction than Gladiolus 
Independence. In brilliant coloring and 
lasting qualities it is unsurpassed. Brench- 
leyensis, Isaac Buchanan, Augusta and 
Liberty are all especially fine. 
The soft coral pink of Dawn and the 
wonderful effect produced by this mass of 
pink have made it one of the most popular 
varieties at Cedar Acres. It is a pleasure, 
with her permission, to quote Mrs. Francis 
King on the merits of this variety. “Dawn, 
the lovely and poetic, both in name and 
look,— in color the delicatest coral pink 
with buds like the palest coral from Naples, 
