. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GLADIOLUS CCC. Under-or body-color essentialhj yellow. 19 dracoc^phalus, Hook. f. Stem stout, 2 ft. or less: Ivs. 3-4, rather firm: fls. 3-6, of medium size, yellowish ereen, the tube (2 in. or less long) curved; upper seg- ments elliptic-obovate and more or less hoode
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GLADIOLUS CCC. Under-or body-color essentialhj yellow. 19 dracoc^phalus, Hook. f. Stem stout, 2 ft. or less: Ivs. 3-4, rather firm: fls. 3-6, of medium size, yellowish ereen, the tube (2 in. or less long) curved; upper seg- ments elliptic-obovate and more or less hooded, yellow- ish and closely striate with purple, the other segments much smaller and reflexing, mostly green and purple spotted. , 20. (i in. long; segments all oblong or oblong-spatulate and flar- ing or recurved, some of them red-marked in the throat. Variable. Sometimes pure white ( 648), and some- times flesh-color ( 645).—An old garden plant. 23. floribundus, Jacq. Stem short (1 ft.), producing fls. from near its base : Ivs. usually 4 : fls. 12 or less, large, white tinged with pink, the slightly curved tube 2 in. or less long; segments obovate or spatulate, ob- tuse, wide-flaring, red-lined. 610. 24. oppositifldrus. Herb. Much like the last, but fls. more numerous and smaller, in a distichous (or 2-sided) spike, white, sometimes marked with rose. 7292 III. 13:291. Gn. 45 very handsome plant growing 3-6 ft. high, and producing spikes 2 ft. long. 25. Milleri, Ker-Gawl. Stem 12-20 in.: Ivs. about 4 : fls. rather large, 4-5, nearly erect, milk-white, the tube 2 in. or less loug and nearly straight; segments oblong and nearly acute. 632. II. garden Gladioli are hybrids of va- rious kinds and degrees. Of many, the parentage js so confused that it cannot be made out. However, there are four main lines of development or divergence, rep- resented in the late-flowerin:; (TUiidaveii^i*. Lt-iiioinei and
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