378 
The Garden Magazine, August, 1923 
“THE CROSSROADS 
OF THE PACIFIC” 
Hedge of Hibiscus and Royal 
Palms in a Hawaiian garden 
at Honolulu where many trop¬ 
ical plants are at their best 
WHERE EAST 
MEETS WEST 
This garden at Haleiwa on the 
island of Oahu, Hawaii, shows 
a curious and wholly pleasant 
merging of Oriental and West¬ 
ern landscape art 
Philippines, and they need no special care, except to provide 
good drainage and full sunlight. 
A LL the summer-blooming types of Gladiolus—the Lem- 
l oinei, gandavensis, Childsii, primulinus, and large-flowered 
varieties seemed to thrive and blossom well, regardless of 
weather conditions. The early blooming so-called “ Baby 
Gladiolus” of the autumn-planted Colvillei, nanus, and ramosus 
types did not thrive. The really fine popular large-flowered 
sorts—Mrs. Francis King, Niagara, America, Panama, Mrs. 
Frank Pendleton, Principine, Purity, Peace—gave excellent 
blossom stalks, and could be had the year around by proper 
distribution of plantings. For spring and summer flowers, 
conns from the United States could be planted from Decem¬ 
ber to June for a succession of bloom. Australian corms 
proved excellent for 
Thanksgivingand Christ¬ 
mas ilowers. TheAustra- 
lians take great interest 
in the Gladiolus and 
grow particularly fine 
ones near the southwest 
coast of Victoria. Au¬ 
gust and September 
plantings produced blos¬ 
som stalks from Thanks¬ 
giving through Christ¬ 
mas and New Year’s. 
The growing of im¬ 
ported Gladiolus in the 
Philippines thus proved 
easy. The maintenance 
of native-grown stocks of 
them was an entirely 
different matter. The 
experience with the first 
lot of corms, harvested 
in July, 1917, well illus¬ 
trates the difficulties 
encountered. In Septem¬ 
ber, two and a half 
months later, a few of 
the corms of some prim¬ 
ulinus hybrids began 
to sprout while still in 
the storeroom, and a 
number of both sprouted 
and unsprouted corms 
were planted. Then some 
of the idiosyncrasies of 
Gladiolus in the tropics 
began to appear. The 
majority of the corms re¬ 
fused to sprout in the 
warm, moist soil, and 
many remained dormant 
until the primulinus corms, after flowering and completing 
their growth, were dug the following March. These, and a 
number of others kept continuously in storage, rested from 
seven to fourteen months. The corms of the primulinus sorts 
and of a few others which grew after a short rest, were as 
vigorous and blossomed as freely as newly imported ones. 
The majority of the other sorts, which rested for long periods, 
were weakened by it and usually failed to bloom a second 
time. Cormels of the primulinus varieties likewise throve, 
while those of most other sorts failed completely. 
A FTER this rather disappointing experience, records were 
. kept of the behavior of a number of individual corms. 
The primulinus sorts: primulinus major, primulinus sulphureus, 
and a number of unnamed seedlings, rested in storage from two 
