Pruitt’s Ruffled 
Gladiolus 
The longer I grow Glads the more I am 
learning to love the ruffled varieties. 
When my seedlings are blooming for the 
first time I look them over carefully each 
morning to see what has opened. I can 
scarcely see the plain petaled ones until 
the ruffled ones are carefully examined. 
Using only the best of the ruffled ones 
for seed, I notice they are coming more 
ruffled each year. 
The one illustrated here is mv latest 
achievement. It is more ruffled than any 
other gladiolus I have ever seen. Now it 
has neither name nor number, but if it per¬ 
forms as well in 1940 as it did in 1939, vou 
will learn more about it in my next catalog. 
Prices 
Prices herein are prepaid to you. Where 
priced by ten or the dozen, one hundred 
will be seven times the ten rate. 
Twenty-five per cent with order will 
hold for further orders. 
No orders filled for less than $1.00. 
Will be pleased to quote special thousand 
lot price not prepaid upon request, if same 
is in commercial quantity. 
Planting 
A great deal has been said as to the 
best way to plant. In fact, that subject 
has just about been covered. One thing I would like to impress on the minds 
of all growers. This I have learned by experience. We do not plant our large 
bulbs deep enough. We throw out a furrow with a hoe or plow and it leaves a 
bank of dirt on each side that makes it appear we are planting deep enough. 
Just place a large bulb in one of such trenches and level off the ground. Then 
dig down to the bulb and see how near it is to the surface. Be careful or you 
will rake it out. A number two and larger bulb should be 4 to 7 inches below 
the ground level. This will not give you so many bulblets but will hold the tem¬ 
perature down in the warm part of the day and prevent stem crooks. Like 
many other plants the gladiolus makes all or most of its growth at night. When 
a vigorous plant begins making bloom stem above the leaves it grows very fast 
and is very tender in the morning. Then comes the terrible heat of the day. 
The ground is heated at the surface and the plant wilts. Over goes the tender 
stem. The following night it tries to straighten itself up but is unable to do so 
completely. This is called stem weakness. This fact I am not denying; only 
giving this as a remedy. Try it and see if it is worth while. Do not use much 
barnyard manure. If so, place it on the ground in the fall and let the winter 
weather leach it into the ground. 
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