This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...scarlet; "Rembrandt," white and lilac rose; "The Queen," white and pure rose; "W. M'Intosh," orange-scarlet; "Delicata," white and maroon; and "Lucretia," white with cream-coloured blotch outlined in pink--a most beautiful gladiolus. All these at the end of June are a very splendid spectacle. Of other hybrids many are, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...scarlet; "Rembrandt," white and lilac rose; "The Queen," white and pure rose; "W. M'Intosh," orange-scarlet; "Delicata," white and maroon; and "Lucretia," white with cream-coloured blotch outlined in pink--a most beautiful gladiolus. All these at the end of June are a very splendid spectacle. Of other hybrids many are, of course, magnificent, but my taste turns to the Lemoine sorts. The form is not so popular as the great and grand gandavensis hybrids; but none of the latter can compare with some of the choicer Lemoines in splendour of colouring. Get a dozen of that deep crimson wonder "Achanti" and astound your friends. Try also "Demi-Deuil "--a fine thing in two shades of purple; "Eclipse," deep crimson and cream; and "Marc Micheli," pale lilac and violet. A hundred corms of "Marie Lemoine," pale yellow with crimson blotch, are good for cutting from, and others of the Lemoine hybrids will attract you if you study a catalogue of them. G. Nancianus was also raised by M. Lemoine at Nancy out of G. Saundersii. These are huge, but rather coarse to my taste. G. Childsii is a traveller. It went to America, and returned with the name of a great grower there. Some are rather grand, such as "Mohonk," "Boston," &c. The monarch of all hybrids is Herr Max Leichtlin's beauty, "Princeps"--a brilliant scarlet cross between gandavensis and cruentus. These, of course, are but a handful of what you may possess. CHAPTER VIII THE WHITE ROCKERY concluded) In many respects I have much in common with halfhardy bulbs. The affinity becomes more marked as I grow older. As with them it is necessary that they shall be thoroughly ripened if bloom is to ...
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