November 3, 1887. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
S85 
requisites axe cleanliness and freedom from damp. I was some¬ 
what unfortunate with my plants in pots this year, so many of 
them not throwing out grass for layering until it was too late. 
Mr. Douglas has, however, most kindly remedied this for me, and 
must be guarded against, for although not so fatal as in the case of 
the Auricula, it yet sours the soil and leads to the unhealthiness of 
the plant. 
Gladiolus.—I have never had my beds look so well and with 
my own plants, which are now potted two in a pot, are looking 
well. They are placed in the pit where I bloom my Auriculas, and 
are thus easily looked over. At present all look remarkably well 
and free from any appearance of spot. With these, too, damp 
so few showing symptoms of disease as this autumn, proving, as I 
imagine, that the dry season has been suitable for the corms. For¬ 
merly I should at this time have been busy lifting, but I have 
determined this year to wait until the middle or end of next month 
