SOUTH AFRICAN SPECIES 
These dainty Gladiolus from the Cape of Good Hope area 
may generally be grown outdoors only in frost-free regions, but 
some will stand as much as ten degrees of frost (22°) for short 
periods. | recommend cool greenhouse treatment, as for Freesias, 
when in doubt. They require fall planting, as they are winter 
growers, and dislike high temperatures and wet feet. Should be 
dried off after flowering in late winter or early spring. Here is 
the fragrance hybridists have been searching for—at your service. 
All will cross with other sections of the genus. These seeds are 
imported and listed subject to arrival. Uniform price per packet, 
50c. 
G. ALATUS. 12. Bears 5 to 10 sweet scented turkey red flowers 
banded with apple green. 
G. BLANDUS. 20. Bears 7 to 10 white or pale pink flowers, 
sometimes marked maroon. 
G. BREVIFOLIUS. 24. Bears 4 to 12 dainty pink or lilac and 
white flowers. Produces a simple leaf after blooming. 
G. CALLISTUS. 18. Bears 8 to 12 large pale pink flowers with a 
faint, elusive fragrance in the sun. 
G. CARMINEUS. 18. Klip Lily. Bears 5 or 6 large transparent 
flowers of intense carmine. Foliage appears after blooming. 
G. GRACILIS. 20. Little Blue Papie. Bears 2 to 5 pale lilac-blue 
fragrant flowers, marked yellow. 
G. GRANDIS. 30. Bears 2 to 6 fairly large flowers, a curious 
shade of brown-marked pale primrose which turns grayish at 
night, when it emits a marvelous perfume. 
G. HIRSUTUS. 20. Bears 3 to 6 large deep pink flowers with 
white stripes. Very sweetly scented. 
G. ODORATUS. 30. Bears 6 to 16 large maroon flowers marked 
with cream and brown. Sends up spike first, leaves coming later. 
Fragrant. 
G. ORCHIDIFLORUS. 18. Green Kalkoentje. Bears 4 to 6 
greenish to yellow-purple flowers, sweetly scented. 
G. PERMEABILIS. 24. Bears 6 to 12 variable white to pale pink 
to orange-scarlet flowers, some with chocolate markings. 
G. PILLOSUS (Villosus) 20. Pink Papie. Bears 3 or 4 bright red- 
lilac flowers, somewhat smaller than G. gracilis, and at the same 
time. 
G. TENELLUS. 18. Small Brown Africander. Bears 2 to 5 
yellowish-white flowers, tinged lilac. Fragrant. 
G. TRISTIS. 30. Bears 3 to 6 large creamy yellow flowers with 
brown spots, but may vary. Fragrant after dusk. 
G. TRISTIS var. Concolor. (G. CONCOLOR) 30. Bears 3 or 4 
pale chartreuse-yellow flowers, nocturnally fragrant. Corms only, 
for Oct-Nov planting. 6—$1.75; 12—$3.00 
