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No. 2. DISEASE Like most every other plant grown gladiolus do sometimes get disease 
and to avoid diseases you should disinfect your bulbs with Lysol, New Improved 
Ceresan, Enuff Brand or some other good fungicide and insecticide as listed on page 
5 and should be sprayed with a good insecticide. Enuff Brand contains both in- 
secticides and fungicides. Bulbs are much cleaner when grown on soil a little on 
the dry side but watered if necessary. They will not stand wet soggy soil with poor 
drainage. 
A six page circular giving more complete cultural details goes with every order 
of bulbs. 
| wish people could understand about thrips. Always when a person has them 
the first time they don’t know what the trouble is and lay it to poor bulbs or if they 
know thrips they say they came on the bulbs. Always when the plants make good 
growth but the buds dry up and don't open you may know it is thrips. And then it is too 
late to do much about it tho the bulbs will be OK as far as thrips go if they are dusted 
with DDT after digging. 
Disinfect or dust every bulb before planting. Having thrips is just a matter of care- 
lessness. 
Winter Care of Bulbs 
| suppose now that you have your bulbs all cleaned and stored in as cool a 
place as possible. A good temperature is around forty. But cooler than that is 
alright and somewhat warmer doesn't do any harm. 
Do not take the husks off the bulbs tho you can remove them in the spring just 
before planting if you want to make sure there are no disease spots on the bulbs. 
But they need the husks to keep them during the winter. 
It is well to dust them also with DDT dust. This will kill all thrips and thrips’ 
eggs and you will know that your bulbs are perfectly clean of insects at planting 
time. However at planting time you should soak them in Enuff or some other 
fungicide as per instructions in the instruction sheet which goes with each order. 
D.D.T. DUST with copper. Package of 214 Ibs. for 75 cents prepaid. 
For an insecticide in storage or for dusting in the field. 
West of the Mississippi 90 cents. 
D. D. T. WETTABLE POWDER for spraying. 4 |b. package for 
$3.45 postpaid. This can also be used for dusting in the field, but 
is usually used as a spray. West of the Mississippi $3.75. 
Spergon Gladiolus Dust 
Dry powder. Contains Spergon and 3% DDT to be applied to bulbs before 
planting, or after digging in the fall, to help control rot and thrips. May be used 
on gladiolus, tulip, narcissus, iris and lily bulbs. 
ecommended by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station as one of the 
best fungicides. 
Price 2 oz. envelope 25c prepaid. 
1 |b. can (prepaid) $1.50; West of the Mississippi $1.65. Write for prices 
on larger lots. 
