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March, 1906 
plying a Paris green solution to the soil of suf- 
ficient quantity to soak the earth for a depth 
of three or four inches. “This should be ap- 
plied at intervals from the time the plants are 
a few inches high until fully grown. When 
the worms have gotten the start and already 
effected a residence, if the plant is not too 
badly injured, the worm may be located by a 
little dark hole in the side near the ground and 
a wire run up the hole as far as the next sound 
joint to kill the intruder, or he may be care- 
fully cut out and destroyed. ‘The earth should 
then be drawn up around the plant to cover 
the wound and kept wet, and in a few days 
the plant will have sent out new roots at the 
joint, and there will, probably, be no further 
danger. ‘This treatment is also effectual with 
the cosmos. 
The gladioli are another popular bulb that 
furnishes a wealth of cut flowers throughout 
the late summer and fall. “They are not espe- 
cially desirable for lawn culture or conspic- 
uous bedding, as their manner of growth is 
too straggly for best effect, but as cut flowers 
they leave little to be desired. As they are late 
bloomers, it is not necessary to plant them in 
the house, and they may be planted in the open 
ground as soon as danger of frost is passed. 
In preparing for planting all the old, last year’s 
bulbs and the dead, dry skin should be re- 
moved, and any dry stem that remains from 
last year. 
Gladioli should be planted much deeper than 
cannas and caladiums, and it is not necessary 
that the soil should be quite as rich, though 
they will respond finely to generous treatment. 
Eight or nine inches is none too deep to plant 
the bulbs, and this deep planting makes stak- 
ing generally unnecessary. It also makes it 
possible to plant earlier and dig later than 
when the bulbs are planted near the surface 
and are exposed to every change of tempera- 
ture. When it is necessary to stake gladioli 
a process that much interferes with their ef- 
fectiveness, unless very skilfully done—it will 
be well to grow them either in long, straight 
lines, so that the stems may be attached to a 
wire or cord stretched from a firm support at 
either end of the bed or in a square bed of 
solid gladioli that may be covered, at two 
feet from the ground, with wire netting, at- 
tached to corner posts, through which the 
gladioli may be trained to grow, and will 
then need no farther attention, and the netting 
will not be specially noticeable, while holding 
the plants erect in an easy, graceful attitude. 
‘Tuberoses are always favorites of the sum- 
mer time, and should always be grown as 
garden bloomers, as the odor is far too power- 
ful for house culture, but in the open ground, 
when heavy with the dew of evening is de- 
lightful. Tuberoses require a great amount 
of heat, hence must be started in the house 
and not planted out till the nights and ground 
are warm. In potting, all the dead tissues at 
the base of the bulb must be removed with a 
sharp knife and all small offshoots on the side 
of the bulb removed. ‘The bulb should be set 
with its tip above ground in good compost of 
leaf mold, loam and sharp sand and given as 
warm and sunny a place as possible, as the tube- 
rose is much addicted to decay. The shelf 
over the furnace is a good place to start tube- 
roses, and they may be left there until root 
growth has actually begun and the top growth 
calls for light. 
Another most beautiful and desirable bulb 
for summer blooming is the ismene calathina. 
This is started in the house in pots, in April, 
and requires no special treatment other than 
that accorded the generality of plants. Plant 
out when all danger of frost is passed, setting 
the bulbs a foot or fifteen inches apart each 
way. The snowy white flowers, with delicate 
green throat and curiously fringed petals and 
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