Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-08
Then, instead of being. banished
from the garden, you will enter It,
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Then. instead Of being, banished
from the garden, you will enter 1t.
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Those who have never known the
mingled delight and pain of selecting
bulbs from a catalogue have missed
something. One would like to buy
| them all, but that being impossible
Tor various reasons. he must content
himself with a selection.
The new mixture at $35 a hundred is
reluctantly put aside. Also the three
new offerings at $50, $50 and 500 a
bulb! One hundred dollars for a
f1ower. some one exclaims. No, for
business investment. Only the pro-
fessional grower would give such a
price, and he hopes to realize hand.
somely on this investment. The Hol
landers, who gave their all for one
tulip bulb, were not such fools as they
seemed. The tulip craze had a mer
camille basis, after all. Each buyer
hoped to corner the market, and some
of them did.
We decide on some named varieties
and finally, after much perturbation
select the following list. Read over
the names, and try to visualize the
beauty.
Avalon, Bonny, Admiration, Dream
f. j. Shaylor, Glorious, Golden Glory
June Delight. Kasson, kunderdii Clio
ry, Mona Lisa, Natalie. Omega, Oran
Pink Lily, Pride of Goshen, Rose Clio
ry, Ruth Huntington, Scarlet Glory
Smiles, Tempo, Thistle, Ventura, Vic.
let Glory, White Glory, Youell's Favor
ite, Purple Glory.
The colors, briefly and in sequence
are: White, pink, pink. salmon-red,
rose, cream, yellow, geranium. Law.
ender-rose. cream, blush white, orange
salmon, rose, blush, rose, salmon, rose
lilac. red, rose, rose. red, white. VIC
let. Invite, rose. purple.
The foregoing have ruffled petals
The following are plain petaled varie
ties: Alhambra, Black Bird, Black
Pansy, Byron l.. Smith, Challenger
Cherry King, Cincinnatus Heine, Gym
beline, Estella, Fairest White, Fair
field. Fire Ribbon, Flaming Vale
Gaiety, Gold Throat Gov. Hanly, Ida
Van, l Excel. Indian Maid. Kilima
Lustre, Magic, Mary Fennell, Miss
U. S. A, Mrs. DIR. Norton, Mrs Frank
Pendleton, Mrs, George w. Moulton
Noxall, Ozarka, Pantheon, Pella. Prim
rose Beauty, Purple Spot, Red Copper
Scarlet Princeps. Snow Boy, Snow
Flake, Splendorra, The Cream, Uhlan
Chief, Tyrian Beauty, Violet Beauty
me CoiorS, In order. are: Pink
dark red, cherry, white, aniline red
rose, white, dark maroon, red, car
dinal, salmon-red. yellow-red, cardinal
orange pink, rOse-red. peach pink, sal
mon-blush, Orange-vermillion, laven
der blue, lilac. blush white cream
rose. cerise, white. white (crimsor
hnedl, white, rose, yellow, purple, rose
ana blue, scarlet, white. white. wine
black. cream, vermilliOn. tyrian. violet
These colorings are listed here tC
give newcomers to this field some idea
OF the amazing range 10 be found In
this flower. From the brick red gla,
dloluS OF grandmother's day-she call
ed it the sword lily-to the present
offerings, a wonderful development
has taken place.
If one has the slightest esthetic
sense, he will stand in wonder before
the velvet colorings of the gladioIus
with range unsurpassed in any other
flower, in all probability.
In addition TO its form and color
ing, the gladiolus, in its modern de
Velopment. possesses a quality which
Is absolutely beyond the power OF
words to capture. May this not be
that glory Of the Creator which the
religions of all races and ages have
delighted to magnify?