4 Champlain View Gardens 

BRIEF REQUIREMENTS FOR GROWING GLADS 
No. 1. Have good bulbs. 
No. 2. Disinfect with Lysol, New Improved Ceresan or dust with DDT and Fermate mixed. 
This isn't necessary but is good insurance. 
No. 3. Any kind of soil. 
No. 4. Full sunshine all day. 
No. 5. Do not plant near trees or strong growing plants that rob the soil of moisture or food. 
No. 6. Good drainage. Glads will not stand wet feet. IF soil is too dry the blooms will not be 
s0 good as if you water them but the bulbs may be cleaner tho not so large. They will 
take a lot of water when coming into bloom if the drainage is good. 
No. 7. Go easy on fertilizer. Don’t use much. 
No. 8. Spray or dust every week or ten days with DDT or Delbetar or other insecticide from 
the time they are a few inches tall. If using DDT better put in some Black Leaf 40 or some 
insecticide that will kill aphis or other insects that sometimes carry bean mosaic. 
No. 9. When cutting blooms leave at least 4 leaves to nourish the bulb that is forming. 
No. 10. Dig a month or so after blooming or leave longer if possible and if the plants are still 
green. 
No. 11. When digging cut the stem tight to the bulb. Dust the bulbs with DDT. 
No. 12. Dry in a cool airy place for two weeks or more and don’t have the bulbs more than 
four inches deep in the tray or box you put them in. A warm place is O.K. if airy. The 
moisture must get out of the bulbs. 
No. 13. When the old bulbs can easily be removed from the new ones (in 2 or 3 weeks) take 
off the old bulbs and save the bulblets if you want to grow them on. Then let the bulbs 
dry out more for two or three weeks before putting them away for the winter. Put on 
some more DDT at this time after cleaning. Also it is well to dust them with Fermate 
which is said to help keep the bulbs healthy during the winter. You can mix the DDT 
and Fermate. Keep cool during the winter. 40 to 50 degrees is OK. Very small lots 
can be put in paper bags. Discard all bulbs showing disease. But small scabs that can 
be lifted out with the finger nail don’t do any harm. They just don’t look so good. But 
bulbs showing any disease lesions that eat into the bulbs should be destroyed. 
TWO THINGS TO GUARD AGAINST 
No. 1. INSECTS Under this heading the main insect is thrips. Many people when they get this 
on their glads think it is a disease. It is not a disease but an insect which can easily be 
kept off. Thrips dry up the buds so they do not open. To avoid them dust your bulbs 
at digging time, at cleaning time and before planting and then spray or dust during 
the growing season. 
Lately there has been some trouble with a disease called bean mosiac which 
spots the flowers. This disease is carried by insects other than thrips mostly aphis and 

*OGARITA gave a plant seventy inches high from a medium size bulb. FLYING FORTRESS 
gave the best exhibition spike of any. SHERWOOD was the best purple | ever saw. AUREOLE 
was a wonderful yellow. | liked it better than any yellow | had. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE 
and GERRY were my favorite whites.” —F. H. Stevens, Wash. 
