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♦ GARDENING. 



Feb. I. 



from them till they make fair roots and 

 begin to grow, then take them up to the 

 light and put a stake to each pot to keep 

 the plants from breaking down. 



Pick over the tuberoses. Separate the 

 offsets and keep the large flowering bulbs 

 by themselves and the lesser ones in a box 

 by themselves. They require more warmth 

 than gladiolus. 



Tigridias may be treated like gladioli, 

 or kept a little warmer. Mice and rats 

 will eat them, guard them from these 

 pests. 



Amorphophallus and green leaved 

 caladiums should also be kept moderately 

 warm, say 55° or a little over, and not 

 too dry. 



Keep montbretias quite cool, say 40' 

 to ■i5°, with a little loam over them; 

 don't keep them dust dry, for some of the 

 kinds don't make very solid bulbs. 



Hyacinthus candicans may be kept 

 quite dry, giving it the same care as 

 gladiolus, so may summer-blooming 

 oxalis. 



OLflDIOLUS. 



In field culture, where contact with the 

 manure cannot be easily avoided as in 

 small spaded plots, the gladiolus does 

 better following a previous crop, for 

 which the ground had been fertilized with 

 stable manure. But no plant is benefited 

 Ijv the application of more food than it 

 can consume, if this food, however, is in 

 the proper condition it will not use more, 

 nor be injured by it. Excessive moisture 

 should be provided against by drainage. 



The gladiolus of to-day is different from 

 the gladiolus of 15 or 16 years ago, ex- 

 cept the section Gandavensis, which has 

 been inbred for years, resulting in so 

 serious an impairment of its vitality that 

 many varieties will not produce charac- 

 teristic flowers for two successive seasons. 

 This excessive incrossing is the cause of 

 its degeneration, which is amply proven 

 by contrast with varieties having the 

 least infusion of new blood from species. 

 During the past seaton my greatest fail- 

 ure was in Gandavensis, growing on a 

 sandy loam, manured f r the previous 

 season's crop, (new hybrids here grew 

 over six feet high). My greatest success 

 in the same section, was in a block where 

 the water stood in the drills at planting 

 time, and the soil was never dry. Well 

 fertilized moist soil, withplenty of atmos- 

 pheric moisture, will produce results ob- 

 tainable under no other conditions. 



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