HOUSE AND GARDEN 
302 
April, 1914 
There is no reason why every 
family cannot enjoy this grand 
flower, for the simple reason that it 
is as easy to grow as the potato. 
You can have them in bloom from July 
to frost if you plant a few bulbs each 
month from April to July. 
For only ONE DOLLAR we will send 
75 BULBS of our GRAND PRIZE 
MIXTURE, which covers every conceiv¬ 
able shade in the Gladioli kingdom. 
Last year we sold 150,000 of the bulbs and 
have received hundreds of testimonials as to 
their merits. 
Order Your Bulbs Now 
so as to have them to plant when you begin 
making your garden. 
The culture of Gladioli is a simple one; bulbs may 
be inserted in the ground with a trowel, about four 
inches deep and one to two feet apart, being careful to 
rake over the ground with a small weeder, after the bulbs have started to grow, so as to keep 
it from becoming hard or cakey. This will insure splendid blooms. 
Write or call at our store, mention “House and Garden,” and secure 
this splendid collection of Gladioli Bulbs for only $1.00, prepaid to your 
home, anywhere in the United States, with our 1914 Catalogue. 
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The GLADIOLI is one of the most 
satisfactory flowers grown because it 
blooms continuously when it is cut and 
put in water just as well as when in the 
ground. 
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I had to wait for over a year for its re¬ 
newed growth. The wistaria grew with¬ 
out a halt, but, alas! my poor Dorothy 
Perkins. During the second summer, al¬ 
ways the critical one for babies, they 
showed symptoms of a disease. I rushed 
to my medical book, thinking anything 
would be better than to have this germ, 
or insect, sap the vitality of my pet ones. 
Instead of dosing them with mild home 
remedies, I sprayed them with Paris green 
which had been left over from my apple 
tree doctoring. A few days passed and 
the strong drug had done its work. The 
leaves all dry, hung brown and limp, and 
the stems of all but one started childhood 
over again. The next summer I sprayed 
them with pyrox, one pound to eight gal¬ 
lons of water, and in a few days sprinkled 
them with water and threw on tobacco 
dust to kill the aphis. This was success¬ 
ful. One vine I forgot to mention was 
clematis. I planted two vines before the 
posts of the piazza facing the view. Each 
summer they stood before me as living 
examples of that most maddening of all 
precepts, “If you don’t at first succeed, 
try, try again.” Instead of growing taller 
and more luxuriant each year, they started 
over from the bottom up. They tantalized 
me so that I finally turned them out in a 
vicious temper. David pleaded for their 
lives, saying they were not strong enough 
to weather the winter gales. “I despise 
weaklings and have no room for them on 
my place,” I replied, pulling at them 
harder than before, and in their place 
planted Virginia creeper. 
At times everyone has a longing for se¬ 
clusion in various degrees. Of course to 
some four walls are sufficient, but I am 
speaking of those rooms and temples of 
nature where the mind and body can rest 
and the spirit grow. There is nothing 
more delightful than the little outdoor 
room shaped by the natural growth of 
tree and shrub, but tamed down into a 
chamber, where hammock and rustic chair 
cater to one's comfort. In our line of 
trees there is a space twelve by fifteen feet, 
with an oak and elm tree growing at either 
end, while bushy undergrowth partially 
screens the outer world from view. As 
the slope of the ground declines sharply 
it was necessary to form a terrace. Our 
man dug up the sod, laying it aside. He 
then built up the lower portion with a mul¬ 
titude of small rocks, making it almost 
level with the top, then pulled down the 
top soil to cover them and replaced the 
sod. At the lower edge he built a minia¬ 
ture wall with steps in the center, and so 
my room was finished. All this work was 
done in one day. The space below the 
steps was quite as suitable for room build¬ 
ing as the one finished, so I eagerly 
planned a second room and carried it out 
in the same way. Here were two stalwart 
trees just the right distance apart for a 
hammock-—this we called the lounging 
room, while the first was the tea room. 
To furnish it I found rustic chairs which 
were both artistic and comfortable and a 
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