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House & Garden 
Ruffled Gladiolus—“Kunderdi Type” 
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The only race of Gladiolus 
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Each petal is exquisitely 
ruffled, or fluted, giving the 
flowers a refined appearance 
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New Class, New Types, New Colors. 
'"They are immensely more heantu 
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—Mathew Crawford. 
‘*The Ruffled Gladiolus like the 
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The Plunder of the Past 
{Continued from page 74) 
romantic, perhaps, than the reality, 
but who cares for that? It is the 
touch of faery we are after. 
We had rather see history than 
read it, see it in the very stuff the 
olden-time folks made and used. To 
lay hands on a solid, enduring piece 
of the 15th Century, that is the his¬ 
tory lesson unforgettable. 
A 14th Century candlestand, a 16th 
Century Venetian tooled cabinet, a 
bacchanalian canvas that was wet 
when New York was straggling 
along the waterfront, a Florentine 
bas-relief, a haughty halberd that 
gleamed with the others at the head 
of a slow-swaying priestly proces¬ 
sion twenty generations ago, a ta¬ 
pestried marriage scene made in 
Flanders four centuries before the 
war-lords turned that place into to¬ 
day’s spattered, cockpit; these are 
relics to conjure the mist of years 
away for the least imaginative, and 
to present him with a picture of the 
past of his own kind. These are the 
relics we are buying and carrying 
away with care. 
That dagger now, think of it in the 
Tennesseean’s home. Do you hear 
his wife’s remonstrances that the 
children will get it and hurt them¬ 
selves? Do you see little son of six 
years tugging terrible hard at her 
skirt as she exclaims at its beauty, at 
its oddness, at its deadliness? Do 
you see Dad bend down to the eager 
boy, holding him off with one hand 
and showing him the gleaming weap¬ 
on with the other? 
And now back, back across the 
years and the miles to the forge in 
Y^enice whence the dagger came. 
Was there not a boy there, too, a 
youngster with a bright inquisitive 
eye who peeped in at the door and 
enjoyed the flying of the sparks 
from the hot and hammered blade? 
Planting a Pink Garden 
{Continued from page 21) 
peonies and columbines. Queen of 
May, the iris nearest to a true pink, 
predominated, but attended by the 
violet pink and white of Madame 
Paquitte and Sappho. A soft radi¬ 
ance of lavender and violet was con¬ 
tributed by Khedive and Gypsy Queen, 
a pale straw color by flavescens and 
a golden yellow by aurea, contrasting 
cleverly with the clear blue of Iris 
pallida dalmatica, the latter placed 
near the large silky pink petals of 
the oriental poppies, flanked by the 
dull grey and lavender of Veronica 
incana. 
Hordes of pink and cream colum¬ 
bines fluttered everywhere, their lacy 
foliage contrasting with the grassy 
blades of the iris. The peonies as 
well as the iris were chosen from ob¬ 
servation at the horticultural show. 
All those listed are of the earlier va¬ 
rieties and not one of them reveals the 
slightest tinge of blue. Of the single 
ones Leucadia, Areos, and Rosy Dawn 
are of a wonderful satiny flesh tint. 
The Bride is an immense single one of 
glistening whiteness with conspicu¬ 
ous golden stamens. The others are 
all of the double or rose type, blend¬ 
ing perfectly in tones of shell pink 
and delicate cream. 
Contributory to the iris and peonies 
was an especially delicate border of 
maidenhair fern, lavender-blue Phlox 
divaricata, foam flower and Azalea 
vaseyi, a witching pink. Above the 
fern, later, swayed coral bells. 
A single touch of gold was offered 
by the little shrub Potentilla fruticosa, 
completely covered with flowers of a 
clear primrose, and resembling a wee 
single rose. 
Against the hedge at this time— 
June fifteenth—were masses of taller 
flowers : foxgloves, pink lupines, Can- 
terburj^ bells of a soft pink, holly¬ 
hocks of pinky yellow, and the tur¬ 
quoise blue of Delphinium belladonna. 
I was horrified to discover that 
Sweet William and foxglove, so gen¬ 
erally quoted as an excellent com¬ 
bination in their mixed varieties, dis¬ 
closed an appalling range of conflict¬ 
ing harshness, from white and salmon 
to cerise, magenta, purple and dull 
red. However, prompt and vigorous 
upheaval restored harmony, as in this 
combination only white or very pale 
pink was allowed. 
Through the Summer 
From the middle of June to the 
middle of September the garden 
showed only an occasional note of 
color for chance visitors. Of course 
there were phlox, speciosum lilies, 
hollyhocks, and coral bells. Had the 
summer months been under consider¬ 
ation I would have chosen the pink 
loose-strife {Lythrum roseuni), rose 
mallows and more phlox, keeping to 
the soft, warm pinks and omitting 
cold blue pink or flame color. Of 
these some excellent types are Eliza¬ 
beth Campbell, light salmon with a 
warm pink center; Selma, light rose 
with a small cherry-red eye; Mrs. 
Wm. N. Craig, pale pink with a red 
eye; Mme. Paul Dutrie, an indescrib¬ 
able faint flush of pearly lavender- 
pink; and Daybreak, of soft pink. 
An unusual flower for this season 
is Rudbeckia purpurea, a tall daisy 
of dull old rose color with a rich 
brown center, appearing in August; 
and for a soft mass of palest pink 
add Gypsophila acutifolia. 
September Bloom 
In early September the garden was 
very satisfactory in its mass effect, 
though there was not the wealth of 
interesting detail to be seen in the 
spring. The borders were filled wher¬ 
ever space permitted with silvery pink 
snapdragons; a few pink hollyhocks 
survived from summer, and the air 
was still heavy with the fragrance of 
the speciosum lilies which began to 
bloom in August. The best early 
pink aster was Elsie Perry—a sturdy, 
hardy variety 3' high. In combination 
with this were flat-topped masses of 
dull pink Sedum spcctabile, clouds of 
lavender Statice latifoUa, dwarf bleed¬ 
ing heart, and phlox—^Peach Blow, 
palest pink, and Pantheon, silvery 
rose. 
With the exception of the sedum 
and statice, whose period of bloom 
proved short, all lingered toward the 
end of the month when the Japanese 
anemones began to bloom. Tliese, in 
masses of rose, silvery pink, and 
white, both single and double, ap¬ 
peared to fill the garden, and lingered 
on into October to greet the hardy 
chrysanthemums. The later hardy 
asters were Thomas Ware, Perry’s 
Pink, and Thirza. Of these the latter 
proved weak and ineffective, as did 
Boltonia latisquama. This year, to 
enhance the medium late effect, I have 
added more asters of the sturdy type: 
Nova Anglia rosea; Lil Fardell for 
more pink; Climax, a very large flow¬ 
ered pale blue which lasts fairly late; 
and for a touch of late yellow the 
very latest of the helianthus—the tall 
Maximilian—in the two farthest cor¬ 
ners next the hedge. In place of the 
galium which did not prove effective 
enough to warrant giving it space, I 
have put in a carefully balanced posi¬ 
tion in the four center beds, a dwarf 
aster—the variety nana compacta mul¬ 
tiflora rosea. 
