A FEW DON’TS IN GLAD GROWING 
Don’t plant glads in the shade if you expect to get good strong spikes. 
Don’t cut the plant off close to the ground when cutting the spike. Leave 
four leaves on the plant to mature the bulb. 
Don’t leave your bulbs in the ground in the fall after the tops are dead. Dig 
when tops BEGIN to die. 
Don’t plant glads where lime, wood ashes, or poultry or horse manure has 
been used. It will very likely cause scabby bulbs. 
Don’t use old Paris Green for spray that has stood around for a long time 
exposed to the air, and has turned quite hght in color. It has probably lost most 
of its effectiveness and will give unsatisfactory results. 
Don’t get the Tartar Emetic spray on your skin when using it or it may cause 
a skin rash on some persons. Better use rubber gloves. 
Don’t use spray that has been mixed up and stood around for a week or two 
The brown sugar causes it to ferment and the results will be unsatisfactory. 
Don’t store your bulbs by tying up in bunches with the tops left on. If there 
happens to be any thrips on the tops they will have a merry feast on your bulbs. 
Cut the tops off, at once,when the bulbs are dug. 
Don’t fail to join your State gladiolus society immediately, so that you can 
learn a lot more do’s and don’ts in glad growing. 
Complete instructions for growing, treating, and storing gladiolus bulbs will 
be included with all orders. 
; ° ictured was taken from a planting of small 
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A ord About Colo bulbs so as to get a more compact spike and 
Tt has often been said that an optimist is shorter head. Even then the engraver cut off 
one who thinks he can grow vegetables like the the two top buds when engraving the plate. 
pictures in the catalog. This, however, is not 
true of the average glad picture appearing in 
catalogs. A great many of them are not even 
good average spikes. The spike of J. 8. Bach 
on the back cover is a selected spike as it 
came from the field, without any changes of 
any kind. 
Buy Defense Stamps!! 
Some people feel that if they have a few 
dollars to spare they should help Uncle Sam 
and buy stamps rather than spend it on other 
The spike of Marguerite appearing on the things. OK, go ahead and buy stamps, then 
front cover is NOT a typical spike of this send me Defense Stamps in payment on your 
variety when grown from large bulbs. The bulb order. Then Unele Sam will have the 
three spikes shown on page 3 are typical of | money, you will have your bulbs, and I will 
this variety. Spikes of this kind, however, have the stamps (which I guarantee will be 
have too long a flower head to get the whole turned in on Defense Bonds). That’s killing 
thing into a color plate without showing the — two birds with one stone—one of them a little 
florets too small. For this reason, the spike yellow one that recently flew off its perch. 
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SWEENEY, STRAUB & DIMM, HORTICULTURAL PRINTERS, PORTLAND, ORE. 
