How and Where to 
Grow Glads 
Be sure to give them full sunshine if pos- 
sible. Do not grow them against a building. 
Be very careful in using barnyard manure. 
Any good garden soil will grow good 
flowers if watered properly. Do not de- 
pend on a hight sprinkling each evening to 
be sufficient water. Most of such water 
eoes up in hot summer and never reaches 
the subsoil. Make a shallow trench 8 or 10 
inches from the plants or between the rows 
and let the water run until the ground is 
thoroughly wet. The leneth of time this 
will take depends on the nature of your 
soil. This need not be done every day. 
Large bulbs should be planted from 4 to 8 
inches deep and 3 or 4 to the foot in the 
row. Some good commercial fertilizer is 
eood for best spikes. Be careful not to use 
too much. 
For a long blooming season plant all sizes 
of bulbs and if you live where bulblets have 
time to bloom you will be surprised the nice 
late flowers you will have from some vari- 
eties of bulblets. It must be remembered 
some varieties will not bloom much from 
bulblets the first year. Take the larger 
bulblets and plant them 8 or 10 to the foot 
for best results. 
Some of the standards we know to be 
good bloomers from bulblets and smallest 
bulbs: Picardy, Aladdin, Coral Glow, Vag- 
abond Prince, Early Peach, Valeria, Myrna, 
Dr. Bennett, Dream o’ Beauty, Shirley Tem- ALL RUFFLES 
ple. These are only suggestions and it must 
be remembered Oregon is a long season part of the country along the coast and 
bulblets in shorter season parts might be disappointing. It is worth trying. 
Be sure to treat your bulbs for thrip, no matter where you get them. To kill 
thrip 100 per cent is a real task. There are a number of liquid treatments that 
will kill thrip. Naphthalene flakes will kill them in three weeks if kept in a warm 
place where the eges will hatch. Place the bulbs in a close container, not metal, 
but wood, or best, paper bags, and add naphthalene flakes at the rate of 1 ounce 
to every 100 bulbs. If the bulbs are extra large, the proportion of flakes should 
be somewhat increased. The bulbs should be kept in the flakes for three weeks 
or month in a warm place 60 to 70°F. After three or four weeks remove the 
flakes and transfer bulbs to open trays or boxes in a cool room free from frost. 
To dip the bulbs before planting is another good experiment. Lysol is best. 
Use 4 teaspoonfuls to 1 gal. of water and immerse bulbs for six hours. Can be 
done two or three weeks before planting. Treated bulbs should be stored in a 
room away from untreated bulbs. 
SPRAYS—It is well to spray the plants as soon as they are 3 or 4 inches high 
every week until about ready to bloom, with Tartar Emetic. Water, 10 gallons; 
Tartar Emetic, 4 pound; brown sugar, 2 pounds. 
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