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early, soon after the first of October. There is one thing, if the 

 Gladiolus is planted correctly, it will take a great deal of freezing 

 before the bulbs are damaged, because they are four inches under the 

 soil ; and in the early fall it has got to be very hard freezing that will 

 freeze down four inches in depth. But I will say that though we dug 

 as rapidly as we could, before we could get them all dug, that cold 

 freezing weather went so deep into the ground that the bulbs were 

 perfectly encased in the soil. Part of them were hurt and part of 

 them were not. First, we dig them all up and lay them on the 

 ground, then with a knife cut off the top's about an inch from the 

 bulbs ; then put them into the boxes. If we have more than we have 

 room for, we put them into barrels, and put them into the cellar. 

 We have at the present time some barrels in the cellar that have not 

 been handled. Now, anyone who has only a few to handle, the best 

 way is to dig them up and keep the tops on. They will dry perfectly. 

 After they get thoroughly dry, we take them and take the old bulb off 

 from the new ones, and then they are clean, and ready for sale or to 

 be planted next spring. 



Question. Well, you have described how to get the soil ready, and 

 how to spread the fertilizers through it, but I don't think you told us 

 how deep to plant them ? 



Answer. Four inches. 



Question. I don't get the idea? 



Answer. We get a trench four inches in depth, and plant them 

 there. 



Question. How close in the row? 



Answer. Well, at our house the boy takes a pail and he goes along 

 and strews them in the trench so that they will be anywhere from one 

 on top of another to a few inches apart ; but if anyone wishes to do 

 this scientifically, I suppose the prescribed rule would be to plant 

 them about six inches apart. But we get just exactly as good fiowers 

 when they are put in some on top of the others and some two or three 

 inches apart. We plant them very thick, for if you plant them too 

 far apart they take up too much room. I will say one thing: we 

 make our furrows about thirty inches apart, so that there is thirty 

 inches between the rows. We do it all by horse power, only just the 

 weeding in the rows; that is done by hand, so as not to injure the 

 plants. Does that cover the questions? 



Answer. It covers all mine. 



Now are there any other questions any one would like to ask? I 

 will say one thing ; along the last few years the display of Gladiolus 



