ONE OF GLADLAND ACRES 
BULB FIELDS 






















From this field (photographed 
July 14) we will harvest in Oc- 
tober about 2,000,000 bulbs. 
This is about one-third of our 
acreage this summer. Our av- 
erage stand is 20 bulbs to the 
foot. Planting was made from 
mid-March to mid-April, using 1 
qt. of bulblets to 160 lineal feet 
of row. 
Average germination was 
3000 per qt. Water for irriga- 
tion is available at all of our 
fields. As we piant a crop of 
gladiolus not oftener than once 
in 5 years on the same ground, 
much of our crop is grown on 
leased bottom land along the 
Santiam River. This field is on 
our own Bulb Farm. 
AN AERIAL VIEW OF OUR GLADLAND TRIAL GARDEN 
Our 1947 garden is a plot 110 by 135 feet. The entire space is planted in rows 
24 inches apart. The number of bulbs in the garden is approximately 18,000, with a 
value in excess of $20,000. About 400 of the 500 varieties we are growing this year 
are new and recent introductions, including some trial seedlings, which we are growing 
side by side with our best varieties of proven merit, so that we may have a yard stick 
of comparison. We use no fertilizer, a minimum of water, and no fungicide dips or 
sprays, as we want to know exactly how disease resistant these new varieties prove to be. 
Naturally the value of such a test garden is dependent on our records of perform- 
ances, and there are days when little time is left to do anything but make notes. This 
data, plus the records of our field plantings, is invaluable in our efforts to keep Glad- 
land varieties definitely superior ones. As soon as they satisfy us that they are worthy 
of inclusion in our list, we begin an intensive propagation program and as rapidly as 
we can absorb the initial investment, which in the case of many of the newest bulbs, is 
quite extensive, we begin to bring the price level down until finally as with “Ethel Cave 
Cole,” it reflects only the labor cost of production. 
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