October, 1919 
STORING GLADIOLUS CORMLETS. 
I had four quarts of choice Gladiolus 
cormlets last fall and mixed them with 
damp soil, put them in a small box, 
and buried them outdoors below the 
frost line. This spring I dug up the 
box to see how they wintered and 
found them in perfect condition and 
that each cormlet had sprouted. In 
^be^lower (Brower 
the keeping of cormlets over winter I 
know of no better method than to bury 
them. 
W. G. Brainard. 
In high northern latitudes one cannot be 
sure just where the frost line is, and, there- 
fore, storing corms buried in the ground 
might in a severe winter prove disastrous. 
-[Ed. 
101 
I'd rather raise Gladioli than be a King, 
For a Monarch is a troubled thing. 
He loses his throne on rebellion's tide 
When traitors along with his soldiers ride 
And he never knows when the slip of a knife 
May end his troubles along with his life. 
Oh, a Monarch's life is a terrible thing. 
So I'd rather raise Gladioli than be a King. 
— ( Subscriber .) 
Rubus Odoratus, or Thimble Berry, of Northern Wisconsin. The luxuriant foliage and showy blossoms of the Thimble Berry are attractive and real, but the 
fruit is deceptive, a thin layer of pulp barely concealing an enormous receptacle. Its natural habitat is a shaded wood and it will probably never come 
into cultivation although it has some value as an ornamental plant. 
Pruning Rose La France. 
This sweet-scented old favorite is rarely 
pruned in amateurs’ gardens as it should be 
with a view to the production on each plant 
of as many blooms as possible. Personally, 
I have never seen plants quite satisfactory 
that were severely pruned or lightly cut 
back. A medium course seemed to be the 
best in my case. I tried such pruning after 
reading the experience of a lover of this 
Rose who had several plants growing singly 
in very small beds in different parts of his 
lawn. He had tried hard pruning without 
success, so he decided to thin out weakly 
branches and to shorten the remaining 
shoots, some being cut back to one-third and 
the weaker ones to two- thirds of their length. 
In the course of a few years, after such an- 
nual pruning, the bushes measured about 4 
feet high and 3 feet through, forming splen- 
did specimens on the lawn. They flowered 
profusely. Every spring a good mulch of 
rotted manure was put on and covered with 
a thin layer of good fibrous loam. — G. G. — 
The Garden. 
Registration of Novelties. 
At the Horticultural Congress held in 
Paris at the beginning of June, one of the 
principal questions discussed was that of the 
registration of novelties and the protection 
of the rights of the raisers. To many, the 
problem seems insoluble, and there appears 
no means of securing the rights of a pro- 
ducer in a plant, in the same way as they 
are secured to the producer of a work of art 
or literature. The Congress recalled what 
had already been attempted, namely, the 
registration of novelties in a list, national or 
international, with the description of the 
plant, and the issue of a certificate to the 
raiser, and thought the matter might well be 
Studied by a special commission. The de- 
mand was formulated that the names of the 
plants submitted for award should in every 
case be followed by the name of the raiser 
or introducer. On the proposition of Mon- 
sieur Rivoire, of Lyons, the Congress resolved 
that a national bureau for the study of novel- 
ties should be created, with a sufficiency of 
funds for the purpose .— The Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, London. 
Mr. Spencer’s very practical sugges- 
tions on page 98 for determining the 
selling price for Gladioli would, we be- 
lieve, apply equally as well to other 
stocks in the floral line, and, therefore, 
those new to the business whether 
growing Gladioli or some other flower 
as a specialty, would do well to con- 
sider the suggestions made, very care- 
fully, as applied to their particular line 
of business. 
