Definitionn. any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel- shaped flowers
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Soc., 1869, p. 25) points out that the west European species of Erica, Genisteae, Lobelia, Gladiolus, &c., an some of them more nearly allied to corresponding Cape species thai they are to each other; and many of the somewhat higher races of ~, mrnl ~prmprs, h,i-mr~ pvdprii-1v div~rmred from stock now unrepresented anywhere but in South Africa. [Please select]
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Rawson, of Bromley Common, with some complex hybrids of Gladiolus. [Please select]
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The hybrid Gladiolus colvilii occasionally bears uniformly coloured flowers, and one case is recorded (11/57.) [Please select]
"I have a remarkable specimen of the Gladiolus Gorgeosi in there," he remarked importantly. [Please select]
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Said the other-- "My husband declares those dahlias alone couldn't be matched for thirty dollars, and that some of those gladiolus must have cost three or four dollars apiece." [Please select]
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Quietly, unassumingly Rumbold stepped on to the scaffold in faultless morning dress and wearing his favourite flower, the Gladiolus Cruentus. [Please select]
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