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fence, which is available. These plants 
come on fast and will be in good form by 
spring. Along in May I will start planting 
gladiolus bulbs at regular intervals among 
them, lifting out the little bulbs in bunches 
to make room. I will plant so many, every 
few weeks, till the bed is fitted. Gladiolus 
bulbs are planted deep, while bretias are 
very shallow and can easily be thinned out 
at any time if they become too thick. This 
addition of reed growth would be a great 
improvement to gladioli when in flower, as 
they are always too sparsely supplied with 
foliage. We are told that it is a detri¬ 
ment to the bulb to cut the gladioli foliage, 
so we can draw on the Montbretia reeds 
for foliage for the cut flowers, as well. 
Montbretia fertilize only by going to seed, 
so there’s no danger of the two plants 
■“mixing.” Most important point of all. 
America is one of the varieties that does fairly 
well in poor soil and thick shade 
when surrounded by the abundant lively 
green of the “bretias,” the slowly drying 
foliage of the gladiolus will be scarcely 
noticeable. 
I am acting, too, on the possibility that 
full sunshine is not essential to the best 
good of the plant, by selecting the bed in 
a partially shaded locality. If I can demon¬ 
strate this then the need of cutting spikes 
so ruthlessly will also be done away with, 
as the strong sun supposed to be necessary 
for the plant is the ruin of the flower. Two 
years ago, a neighbor, having some more 
of the little America bulblets than she had 
room for, threw them out under a small 
Loquat tree. Later, they came up in a 
clump, and were not divided. This sum¬ 
mer, although so crowded, half a dozen of 
them bloomed. Considering poor soil and 
neglect, the flowers were fair in size, and 
under the thick shade kept in fine shape for 
four days. This is true of America and I 
hope other desirable varieties will show 
the same results in my own plan of partial 
shade. E. A. 
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