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HORNBERCER’S SERVICE 
HAMBURG, N. Y. 
ALBATROSS BULBLETS: 
Planted in May and the photograph taken in September, 1937. 
BRIEFS ON GLAD CULTURE 
Glads require plenty of sunlight and well drained soils. The under drainage 
should be good. If a piece of land stays very wet a long time after a heavy rain, its 
under drainage is not up to par. Glads require soils slightly acid, perhaps about 
ph. 6.5. Most soils with good drainage and proper feeding will grow nice flowers, 
but sandy and light soils grow better looking bulbs. If you have the land available, 
it is best to use the same soil about once in three to four years in rotation with 
other crops. When planted in rows like you do potatoes, plant large bulbs about 
4 to 5 inches deep and medium about the same, smaller bulbs may be planted a 
little more shallow, perhaps 3 to 4 inches and if you plant bulblets, sow them in 
drills as you would garden peas, plaht as early as soil can be made ready as they 
take much longer to germinate and a little extra watering to start them will give 
much better results. Bulblets can be planted about two inches deep. In quite 
heavy soils you can plant a little more shallow. For spraying, storing, dipping, etc., 
read our article on thrip. Soils may be built up from year to year by plowing under 
well rotted manure each season. When we plant we mix well with the soil some 
good garden fertilizer like 5-10-5 acid, often called truck grower. Additional 
feeding often will assist in getting finer blooms. We prefer some liquid form of 
fertilizer like manure water made from old well rotted cattle manure or some reli¬ 
able liquid fertilizer that can be mixed with the water and then the water poured 
around your plants until it soaks to the roots. If you only pour on a little, it may 
not reach down to the roots, so be sure the roots get wet from the application. One 
such watering a week should be ample. Read all the articles we have in this 
catalog, as they all will assist, to help you grow better glads. 
GARDEN AND HORTICULTURAL BOOKS, a twenty-four page catalog avail¬ 
able for those who purchase text books on garden subjects. 
HARDY PHLOX 
Wonderful for a profusion of bloom for summer and fall color. We offer stan¬ 
dard divisions, prepaid, at 25c per plant, $2.00 per 10, with 5 roots at the 10 rate. 
The nomenclature of Phlox are not as well classified as with glads, peonies, iris, etc., 
so we offer these as we have purchased them from a dealer who has offered them 
a long time. If we are out of any one variety, we will send you two plants for each 
phlox variety under name that we cannot supply on your order. These will all be 
correctly labeled. Variety name, given with brief description following our selection 
of 10 varieties, a total of ten plants, all labeled for $1.75 prepaid, about April 15th 
or for fall planting. 
