. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 648 GLADIOLUS all, they are prized chiefly as oddities, or heeanse of their botanical iiitiTo-^t. Tlie followmg species are either offered ni th'' time in American trade or are parents of niciiiu forms : A. n. with a Iniâ,,sl,inl,r. ,â <iT,ndrical cun^ed tube, wlnrh is enlarijcd in the middle:
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 648 GLADIOLUS all, they are prized chiefly as oddities, or heeanse of their botanical iiitiTo-^t. Tlie followmg species are either offered ni th'' time in American trade or are parents of niciiiu forms : A. n. with a Iniâ,,sl,inl,r. ,â <iT,ndrical cun^ed tube, wlnrh is enlarijcd in the middle: segments nearltf equal. 1. Watsdnius, Thunb. Corm small, globose: stem slender, 18 in. or less, with 1 long, narrow-linear and stiff leaf and 2-3 short, sheathing Ivs.: fls. 2-4, in a lax 1-sided spike, 2 in. or less long, bright red, the wide- spreading segments oblong and acute. â Little known in this country, but offered by the Dutch growers. AA. Fl. short and open, the tube short or scarcely any: segments very prominently clawed, usually unequal. 2. , Linn. Small, the stem only 4-8 in. Iiigh, and slender : Ivs. 3-4, linear and rigid: fls. 3-i in a lax spike, the curved tube H in. long, the perianth bright red and often strongly veined; segments very unequal, the 3 lower tongue-like and protruded, the others obo- vate or nearly orbicular, all of them differently colored toward the "base. 586 ; 592 (the var. Nama- quensis). Fls of 1,1,ii:IIIII l,i,,jll,, with a funnel-shaped , ,r],iil, i/,I,-,,,,/ ,1/ /},!â top: seijments nar- ;/ I,. /,,ââ¢. 1,1,1 ,1,,I I:.:/i,ii:tly clawed. (Gladio- rcrianlh-si',, grindis, Tluinh. (r slender, 2 ft. or less : Ivs. about :i, linear or nearly terete, strongly ribbed : fls. 6 or lis-. :; in. ... with a curved tube ; segments nearly e^ in. long, soft bright yellow; upper seg- ments cucuUate, the 3 lower ones small. Mt. Kiliman- jaro. Gn. 38:762(?) DDD. Color (under color) while or nearly so. 11. vittatu
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