go GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



None of your gladiolus roots should be 

 out of the ground much later than this. 

 You may begin planting them by the mid- 

 dle of April (three inches deep), and may 

 plant from time to time for several weeks ; 

 yet as the late plantings have most to fear 

 from drought, I like the early work best. 

 The different kinds will make a succession, 

 even if planted together. 



Remember that last year's tuberose roots 

 (those that bloomed last year) will not 

 bloom again ; and so save both room and 

 patience. Last year's new tubers or offsets, 

 well cared for, will make blooming roots for 

 next year, but not for this. In Italy, they 

 say, where soil and climate are just the 

 thing, the same tuberose blooms on from 

 year to year, as the lily and gladiolus do 

 with us. Here they give their white beauty 

 but once. But how fair it is I How even 

 superb, sometimes ! I had a tuberose one 

 year with a flower stem more than six feet 

 high ; and at the top a great head of sweet- 

 ness, thick-set with blossoms, like a magni- 



