1930 Descriptive List: Gladiolus and Delphiniums (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Gardens, Champlain View

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1527833771 ISBN 13: 9781527833777

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from 1930 Descriptive List: Gladiolus and Delphiniums

To those who have grown the gladiolus there is no need to speak about the good qualities of this wonderful flower. They know. But as thousands of people will get this catalog who have never grown any glads or perhaps only a few of the older var ieties I want to say a few words to them. There are thousands of other flowers suitable for your garden, all beautiful and all having their places in the general scheme of things. But there is none that will give you the same amount of pleasure and beauty and all round satisfaction as the gladiolus. There is no other flower that has the almost infinite variety of color and form as the gladiolus. Colors range thro almost every conceivable shade and new colors and shades and forms are being introduced every year.

There is a fascination about growing glads that becomes a hobby, then a craze. There are five stages of interest in growing glads. First you just grow them as an amateur, same as you would any other flower. Then as your interest in them increases you become a fan, then a bug then a nut and finally a fiend. When you reach this final stage you are hopeless. You think of glads all day, dream of them at night, spend every available minute of your time in the garden, talk of them. Visit the shows, read all the catalogs and spend all your money on them. You will look lovingly at the last flower in the fall, will handle over your bulbs in the winter time and will hardly be able to wait till you can lovingly plant the bulbs in the spring. From then till the first bloom appears is a period of happy anticipation. When finally the spikes of bloom begin to appear you are in heaven.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1527833771
• ISBN 13: 9781527833777
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 58