Studies were carried out to find out the association between different characters and the direction and magnitude of different characters towards the yield, total number of florets per spike in 22 genotypes of gladiolus grown over two successive year in Floriculture section, Department of Horticulture in Randomized Block Design. The pooled data was subjected to correlation and path coefficient analysis. Characters like days taken to sprouting, plant height, spike length, rachis length, weight of corm, number of corms per plant and propagation coefficient showed a significant positive correlation with number of florets per spike. Among the characters studied days taken to 50%heading recorded maximum direct positive effect towards number of florets per spike while rachis length showed maximum indirect positive effect.
Gladiolus, correlation, path coefficient, number of florets per spike
