Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-07

This is the time to be thinking Of
tulips for next Spring. 1t will be too
late then. Those who fancy this flower
know it must be planted this october
to bloom next May.
The tulip is but one of the flowers
which must be put into the ground this
Fall in order to reward the home gar
dener with beauty in the appropriate
season.
Now is a good time to take general
stock of gardening. especially in re-
lation to what one does or does not
like. Here a person may be as crltl-
cal as he pleaSes. without arouSlng the
ire of those who want to do all the
criticizing themselves!
To take stock of the garden. and to
decide what in it Is good. and what
is not good is simply common sense,
especiallv at this particular time. when
perhaps the keen edge OF garden IN
terest is worn rather blunt.
Probably most gardeners, II they are
honest with themselves, will admit
distinct slackening OF garden interest
which is only natural. since nature her-
self is preparing her moran chliuieAl 1o'
their Winter sleep.
"Nothinc lasts forever" goes the old
song Even the best gardens are SLOW
" whitening away by fine stages, some
If them 50 slight that only the Keen
eve detects them
They are there, however, unmlstaK-
ahle tn those who find these manlfesta-
tions quite as interesting, IN ther way,
as the luxuriant growth OF July ana
August days.
perhaps the best way of handling
t,l;ns is to buy new bulbs every Octo-
her He who relies on old STOCK, III
ordinary garden soil. will face dlsap-
monument at blooming time.
This holds good of the gladlolus, TOO.
It is one thing to dig up a large
supply of bulbs. or corms, more proper
lv. harvested in the home rows. oll ~
is quite another thing, ana mucli peI-
ter, we believe, to ol6er an enCide!
new supply for next SpNing plaiitllis.
Our own experience, oalaHceu w ' ia
of other honest observers among tne
amateurs. shows that home -groWn bulps
lack the pep" of first-size bulbs Secuf-
ed from the best growers.
When we paid large sum LOT
hundred high-class bulbs we hao
garden display of "glads' between
and feet tall, with huge flower spikes
and tremendous flowers, the only sorc
that show the Incompatible beauty vi
these grand specimens.
The next season, with the progeny OF
these bulbs, we had flowers so mucn
smaller that we scarcely recognized
them. Bulbs, in other words, run OUT
Intensive fertilization may save the
day, and perhaps some planters are
more easily satiSfied-We do not know
What we do know is that we have had
no such flowers as with that first grand
splash. Hereafter we shall be satisfied
with couple of dozen gladioli, If neces-
sary, but they must be fresh flrst-slze,
professionally grown corms.
Roses may be planted this month and
next with advantage. Some OF the
largest growers advise Fall planting In
preference to Spring planting. They
say it gives the bush a better chance
to become established so that by April
the plant will be all ready to put forth
leaves; whereas If put in the ground
in the Spring, some time necessarily
must be lost while the roots adjust
themselves to the new conditions.
In another article we propose to tell
the results of planting dozen roses
last Autumn. 1t will be sufficient at
this time to state that IL of the II
lived and prospered. The one that died
was the supposedly hardy Kaiserin