Evening star., 1925-05-27

sowed like peas, in two years will
make fiowering-sized bulbs.
| Thus, IL is easy for the amateur tt
see how the gladiolus grower gets his
many bulbs, If he starts with a fail
in keeping track of them.
! The professional growers sort their
| bulbs according to size, from No. / &c
| No. the smallest, with the cormels
sold by the thousand, and by the quart
| The corms mot cormels) vary in shape
some being "corn-fed," of a fat shape
others being smaller and rounder.
| About all one has to do to grow them
Is stick them into the ground. being
| careful to get them right-side up
Sometimes the bulbs begin to sprout
before being planted, SO eager are
they to perform their life mission.
1T Is difficult for a human being tC
realize. looking at one of these curious
| Things, that 1t, too, has life mission
| the same as a specimen of homo
sapiens.
| Il must grow" the gladiolus bult
| tells US.
| once In the ground. planted about
or inches deep. in full sunshine, II
possible, the gladiolus CORN proceeds
TO grow for all 1t is worth. ACCORDING
10 the soil, weather and depth planted
and, above all, the vigor of the bulb
1t will send it's sword-shaped leaf into
the sunshine
Eighty to ninety days, roughly. are
required for Towering, although some
bulbs are earlier. Planted at 10-day
intervals, beginning early in the
| Spring, one may have a succession OF
| blooms from July to frost
No flower gives more bloom per
gladiolus, due to the peculiar forma.
ton on spikes, the lower flowers bios.
soming first. II a spike Is placed in
water 1t will develop along it's entire
| length, something that scarcely any
other flower will do
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The amateur should begin with
good bulbs, choosing named varieties,
| as this adds immensely to the interest
of growing them. He should beware
OF the reds, as the old fashioned speci.
| mems were glaring. The glory Of the
glads Is their color, and so much i'm.
proyement has been made in this
flower under cultivation that no one
should be satisfied with less than the
best
In one local garden seven bulbs
were planted April %, in a none too
These included Alice Tiplady (orange
saffron), Schwaben yellow. LIE Ma.
| rechal Foch pink and Shell Pink.
All of these had broken ground by
May 13, and by May 20 were a foot in
the air, growing Justify. On May IL
more bulbs had been planted, includ.
| ing Flora Canary Yellow, Ruff1ed
Glory tapricoU, Glory Of Holland
| twhite), America 0ight pink, Panama
| pink, Anna Eberius (purple) and
| Fairlawn (yellow).
| In just exactly nine days the shoots
| of the latter and one of the Panamas
appeared,
| More bulbs were planted in this
garden on May 10. These included
Flora, white variety; Mary Pickford
a creamy white: HALEY, a pink; Z
j. Shaylor, different shade Of the
same, two more of the Foch and sew.
eral of Mrs. Francis King light
scarlet.
Effort was made by the flower lover
| to space these glads so that the white
| flowers would come at intervals in
| the border. acting as peace-makers
between the other colors.
These bulbs are simply an expert
ment with this amateur, he desiring
to try out some Of the various colors
| in an effort to find out the shade he
| prefers. He has a trial garden" In
other words.
Already, however, he has the glad
| fever, and looks forward to original.
| ing variety of his own!