GLADIOLI 5S 



inches deep, and not more than half an inch 

 apart in the row. Tend them carefully all 

 Slimmer, keeping all the weeds out. 



After the first heavy frost in the fall take 

 up your hulbs and put them in trays to dry, 

 leaving the tops on until they are thoroughly 

 dried, when they should be cut off about one 

 inch above the bulb. Next sack them care- 

 fully, using a Number 3 or a Number 4 paper 

 bag (such as those in which sugar comes from 

 the grocer's), and putting two or three dozen 

 bulbs in each bag. Tie the neck of the bags 

 tightly, leaving a surplus of cord from which 

 a loop should be made by which the bag is sus- 

 pended from a nail in the rafters of the vege- 

 table cellar. There they are to be left until 

 spring. Great care must be taken during these 

 latter stages to prevent bruising; every bruise 

 means a rotted bulb in consequence. 



It is at the base of these larger bulbs that 

 the bulblets grow. A two-year-old bulb has 

 clustering around it a large number of the 

 smaller ones, sometimes from thirty-five to 

 fifty. If you have grown Gladioli previously 

 it will not be necessary for you to buy the small 

 bulbs as you may save those adhering to the 



