HORNBERCER’S SERVICE 
HAMBURG, N. Y. 
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time, you can use naphthalene flakes to good advantage. It is best to use this 
material in early part of winter, before bulbs have a tendency to sprout. Small 
quantities of bulbs may be placed in paper bags or boxes and naphthalene added at 
the rate of one ounce to about 100 bulbs. Tie up, or seal bags and boxes with 
paper tape and keep in a room above 6 0 P. for several weeks, then remove the 
naphthalene and store bulbs in regular storage rooms. Even one single gladiolus 
plant in some neighboring garden that is infested with thrip and no control 
measures used, may result in a migration of quite a number of thrip to your gar¬ 
den, so it is a good plan when dipping your own bulbs to offer to dip small lots of 
neighbors bulbs at the same time to remove the risk of chance infestation. We 
know that dust from the so-called dust bowl of the* west can be carried over several 
states by the air currents and no doubt insects as small as thrip are carried great 
distances. In fact, I think this has been proven by the Department of Agriculture. 
LIST OF BEST GLADS 
Perhaps there have been as many 
lists of “Best Glads” as there are grow¬ 
ers of glads, and perhaps no two lists are 
just alike, and yet each grower may be 
honest and sincere. While this may be 
a puzzle to many persons, it is quite easy 
to explain. A grower who lives in your 
own state or even in your own town may 
have vastly different results with any one 
variety, in any one year. I have had 
long experience with glads in a commer¬ 
cial way and I know that there are many 
things that influence results. I will men¬ 
tion just a few briefly and tell you why 
I am not rating by my own rating plan 
I advocated a few years ago, which I 
still consider the most practical for giving 
each variety a fair chance, but this plan 
requires so much of the individual’s free 
time that it is not likely to be workable 
for that reason. 
Here in western New York even many 
small farms have a very wide variety 
of distinctly different types and kinds of 
soils and experience teaches us the ef¬ 
fects of these various soils. While glads 
will grow and give nice average results in 
soils that may be very unsatisfactory for 
many other plants the fact remains if 
you want very outstanding results you 
must give to each variety the require¬ 
ments to produce the variety at its best, 
and these requirements cover soils, cli¬ 
matic conditions, air, drainage, seasonal 
conditions unknown toxic conditions in 
any spot of soil, sub-soils, which are slow, 
Giant Bloom REWI FALLU fast or moderate in under drainage, and 
proper feeding, an important factor. 
I have in mind one of the newer glads, well advertised at present, which has 
been quite high priced. We grew this for three years on a very sandy soil, on which 
many other well known glads gave fine bloom. However, this new variety I men¬ 
tion, did not seem impressive to me, in comparison with others in the same soil 
conditions. This past season we grew this variety, all size bulbs, on a fairly heavy 
loam soil and under growing conditions not as favorable and we got a real surprise. 
I could hardly believe the variety so outstanding on this more heavy soil, under 
less favorable growing conditions, yet results prove what can be done. Our ferti¬ 
lizing methods were the same, in past years we have told our customers about this 
fact. We have advised them to grow the variety Mrs. F. C. HORNBERGER in 
fairly good loam soils and plant to flower in September in latitude of Buffalo, N. Y. 
