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THE’ GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Jury, 1908 
Plant Gladiolus Now 
hers end of June is not too late to plant 
gladiolus. Our first fifty bulbs were 
set out on the 20th of June last year, seventy- 
five some five days later, and the balance on. 
July 1st —about two hundred and fifty 
in all. The bulbs were Groff’s hybrids, 
a mixture of all grades and seasons, and it 
was the second year’s planting of them. 
They were given a little fertilizer at the time 
of planting, and also when the flower stalks 
were forming. 
The picture of the gladiolus bed shows one 
hundred plants fifty-four days after planting. 
In eight weeks, or, by the end of August, 
Gladiolus flowers eight weeks after planting. The 
bulbs were set out June 20 
flowers were abundant. ‘The largest blossom 
of the season measured five and five-eighth 
inches from tip to tip, and there were many 
during the season which reached the five-inch 
mark. Fully three-quarters of the bulbs 
threw up two, and a few three flower stalks, 
many of which were from four to five feet 
high, and all carried from nineteen to twenty- 
five flowers each. 
The first hard frost of the season came on 
September 21st (perhaps a week or ten days 
later than usual), and killed dahlias and 
tender plants in the neighborhood. My 
hillside garden was favored, however, and 
for ten days longer the gladioli showed no 
ill effects from the nightly frosts. About 
twenty flower stalks in bud were finally 
caught, however, but the buds were 
sufficiently developed to open in the house. 
Warmer weather followed and the bulbs were 
allowed to remain in the ground until the 
first of November. I had feared that the 
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