Lilly arranged a plant of gladiolas in the punch-bowl, and pink carnations round the box containing the specimen lamp-shade.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
But this wasn't a case of a bunch of night-bloomin' gladiolas who'd lasted through.
"Wilt Thou Torchy"
Sewell Ford
Not an inch of ground was wasted, nor were flowers wanting for adornment and the bees-splendid double sun-flowers, veritable little suns of gold, garden mallows, gladiolas and others; a score and more of hives completed the picture which its owner contemplated with natural pride.
"Holidays in Eastern France"
Matilda Betham-Edwards