. Dreer's garden calendar : 1898. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS. 93 -^i-^^^i^ GLHDIOLUS**^-^ i^If -Lijanted by mail, add 10 cents per dozen for postage.') The most attractive of all summer flowering bulbs are the Gladioli. Wonderful improvements have been made in recent years in the size and beauty of these flowers, and our list comprises only the best selections, both in our mixtures and named sorts. Their cultivation is very simple, a-; they will thrive in any ordinary garden soil, but amp
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1898. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS. 93 -^i-^^^i^ GLHDIOLUS**^-^ i^If -Lijanted by mail, add 10 cents per dozen for postage.') The most attractive of all summer flowering bulbs are the Gladioli. Wonderful improvements have been made in recent years in the size and beauty of these flowers, and our list comprises only the best selections, both in our mixtures and named sorts. Their cultivation is very simple, a-; they will thrive in any ordinary garden soil, but amply repay care and liberal feeding by enhanced size and beauty. A succession of bloom may be had from July to September by planting at intervals from April fo June. The strongest bulbs should be kept for the latest planting. Plant six inches apart in beds or double rows, and three inches deep. They are very effective when planted among roses, shrubbery, etc. In the fall, before frost, the bulbs should be lified, dried and stored in a cellar or some other position away from fro?.t, for planting again the following spring. SUPERB NEW GI^ADIOI^US "WHITE EADY.'» {^Awarded a First-class Certificate of Merit by the Massachusetts Horticulttiral Society August 21, 1897.) This beautiful pure white sort we had the pleasure of seeing in the grounds of the introducer in Europe a year ago, whose description follows, and which our own experience fully indorses: " A really pure white Gladiolus, gained by crossing the best so-called white varieties. Having compared ' White Lady ' with all the newest white varieties of German, English, American and French origin, we are positive that this novelty is the very best white known. The flowers are large, of finest substance and of the purest white imaginable, the lower petals are slightly tinged with pale yellow; this pale yellow is so delicate and so clear that it does not impair the white of the flower in the least, on the it en
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