Archive image from page 66 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 GLADIOLUS GLAUCIUM 649 CCC. Under- or body-color esse>ifiali/ yellow. 19 dracoc6phalus, Hook. f. Stem stout, 2 ft. or less: Ivs. ;-4. rather firm: fls. 3-6, of medium si
Archive image from page 66 of Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom cyclopediaofamer03bail Year: 1906 GLADIOLUS GLAUCIUM 649 CCC. Under- or body-color esse>ifiali/ yellow. 19 dracoc6phalus, Hook. f. Stem stout, 2 ft. or less: Ivs. ;-4. rather firm: fls. 3-6, of medium size, yellowish ereeu, 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. psittacinus, Hook. {G. Tfatatensis, Reinw.). Stem 3 ft. high, stout: Ivs. about 4, rather rigid : fls. many and large, with a curved tube nearly or quite 2 in. long, rich yellow but thickly grained and overlaid with red (particularly about the margins of the segments); up- per segments obovate and hooded, the lower much smaller and reflexing. 3032. 17:1442. 18:1756. —One of the leading parents of garden Gla- dioli. 21. purpilreo-auritus, Hook. f. Stem 3-4 ft., very slender: Ivs. 3—4, short: fls. 10 or more, primrose-yel- low, medium in size, the curved tube less than 1 in. long; segments obovate, not widely spreading, the lower ones with a purple blotch. 5944. 2 some. A parent of modern Gladioli, cccc. Under- or body-color white. {Forms of iVi). 15 may be sought here.) 22. bl&ndus, Ait. Stem 2 ft. or less tall: Ivs. usually 4: fls. few, white and red-tinged, the curved tube 1 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
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