The trial and hybridizing garden was 
very beautiful. So much so, that we made 
many new friends in our many visitors. 
Situated on highway US-23, near to the 
highway, we selected a patch of clay-loam, 
never before used for glads. Immediately 
north cf cur home, this garden was trenched 
for the bulbs and lined with fine, sharp 
washed sand. Gassed with Methyl-Bromide, 
just before being planted the bulbs were 
scaked in a solution of New Improved 
Ceresan. Covered by two inches of sand, 
the trench was then finished with clay- 
loam. 
We take tests of soil in field and seed 
beds. Thus we know the plant-food con- 
tent; and we are sure of what fertilizers 
are needed. (Your knowledge of the pH 
of your soil, also of the water you use, 
must guide you in the correct use of ferti- 
lizers.) After the glads came through, we 
started to cultivate and spray with the 
tractor. We made our own special power 
sprayer, which is slipped on and off the 
rear of the tractor by a chain-fall which 
works fine. When the glads have grown 
tco high to cultivate or spray with tractor, 
a mulch of hay or straw is placed between 
the rows. The spraying after this should 
be continued with a knapsack sprayer. This 
brass sprayer, called the Champion, is easy 
to operate. It gives high pressure so readily 
that it is a pleasure to spray with Tartar- 
Emetic! Of all our trials this sprayer is 
‘tops’ . . . many are headaches! This one 
can spray a 35-foot tree by just twisting 
the high-pressure nozzle. 
It takes a heap of planning to insure 
having a good garden. Here are a few items 
which made for our own garden success: 
Sand, Methyl-Bromide, Ceresan, Nu-Rute, 
Tartar-emetic, Sugar, Fertilizers, wire, posts, 
name stakes, overhead sprinklers, twistems, 
labels, gelatin capsules for shielding stig- 
mas in hybridizing, paper labels, plastic 
containers for pollen, knives and _ pollen- 
tube holders. This last item can be made 
by inverting a wooden box and boring holes 
in same an inch or so apart. 
‘When you do the right planning, your 
planting will be crowned with success. From 
seedlings grown from seed in 1943 we had 
No. 6 bulbs which, through our system in 
1944, grew spikes up to five feet high. One 
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