Gloriosa 
The Gioriosa lilies are just that, glorious-—-the bulbs of fastest growing popu- 
larity that we know in the United States. In ten years we have never had enough 
of them to go around. Recently they are becoming live-wire florists’ flowers and 
are being shipped airmail to the leading cut-flower markets of the nation by a few 
Florida growers. They come from Africa and Asia. 
We are harvesting the tubers, which are curious L- or V-shaped things, several 
times of the year, and can usually supply bulbs of G. Rothschildiana, the most color- 
ful species, any time of the year. When sprouted, they can be planted at any time, 
under glass in the north and outdoors in mild climates. Or they can be treated as 
gladiolus and planted in the garden in the summer in the North. 
Gloriosa Rothschildiana grows 3 to 6 feet tall, likes full sun and will do well in: 
part shade. It is a bulb vine, climbing by tendrils at the end of the leaves. It will 
grow any month of the year, but is perhaps best planted in spring for summer bloom 
and in the fall or winter for winter and spring flowers. Being tender, this tropical 
plant must be protected from frost. If stored in a warm, dry, light and airy place, 
the tubers will soon sprout. ’If kept in a dark, cool (but not cold) place, stored in 
dry peat or sand, they will usually keep unsprouted for months. They do not like 
moist cold soil or cold air conditions and may rot. 
Gloriosa superba is a summer and fall-growing plant, much like G. Rothschildiana 
in the bulb and character of growth. It makes tall vines and smaller orange-red 
flowers, much crimped on the edges of the petals. Gloriosa Plantii is a dwarf edition 
of G. Rothschildiana in character of the flowers, but the coloring is a lively orange 
and yellow. The tubers are long and snaky, usually about the size of a lead pencil, 
sometimes two feet long, and hard to harvest. This makes a fine low border plant 
for the outdoor garden in the lower South, and elsewhere, blooming in late summer. 
When the stems die down the tubers can be dug or stored in their pots until 
they start to sprout again. They make new tubers on the ends of the old ones, and 
may be raised from seed to blooming size in a few seasons. G. superba is a native 
of Asia and tropical Africa, and G. Plantii comes from South Africa. Large tubers of 
G. Rothschildiana from East Africa, can produce 20) blooms on a single plant. They 
are one of the world’s most beautiful and showy flowers, fine as cut blooms. 
G. Rothschildiana, 75c and $1.00 each for blooming size tubers, minimum size 
4 to 5 inches long, % inch diameter. Larger tubers, $1.50, and smaller, may 
bloom or leastwise surely in another season, 35 and’ 50c each. 
G. Plantii, rare and lovely plant, single tubers, $1.00 each. 
G. superba, the old fashioned variety, 35 and 50c each. 

GLORIOSA ROTHSCHILDIANA 
the gorgeous Glory Lily 
