Hybrid of Gladiolus cardinalis and Gladiolus blandus raised by Rev. William Herbert. Blush-flowered corn-flag, Gladiolus pudibundus. Specimen raised by Richard Harrison of Liverpool. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by Frederick William Smith from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2, Orr, London, 1836.

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