SUCCESSFUL GLADIOLUS CULTURE 
Present day varieties of gladiolus can be grown easily and in 
every section of the United States or Canada. Just be sure and plant 
good bulbs, free of disease. Give them a sunny exposure and be sure 
that they have a sufficient amount of moisture. If the season is like 
the past season, you certainly will have to help them with a good 
soaking once a week. 
Large bulbs are necessary to produce exhibition blooms but your 
medium and small bulbs of some varieties, will bloom and, on the latter 
two sizes, of course your bulblet production is much greater. 
If your soil is a heavy clay soil, a depth of three inches is sufficient 
for your bulbs perhaps but a sandy soil necessitates deeper planting 
for best results. Plant large bulbs about six inches deep and about 
five inches apart in light sandy soil; medium bulbs four inches; and 
small bulbs three inches. If you are mainly interested in bulblet 
increase, plant as close to the surface as possible; if blooming size 
bulbs, you will probably have to stake them. Light soils will usually 
give more bulblets than heavy soils. 
Your first planting can be about the time farmers plant potatoes in 
your locality and your last planting should be about 120 days before 
your usual first frost. We make three plantings, three or four weeks 
apart, to insure a long blooming period, and suggest, in southeastern 
New England: April 6 to 15 — May 10 or thereabouts — and June 
ie 20: 
Either spade or plough (depending on the size of the garden) 
the soil deeply, preferably in the fall, leaving it rough during the winter. 
If stable manure is used, put it on before spading and it will be well 
rotted by spring. 
We prefer planting in double rows in a trench as the bulbs tend 
to support one another. The rows are from 18 to 36 inches apart, 
depending on your method of cultivation, — by hand or machine. 
Allow about five inches between large bulbs and less for smaller sizes. 
As we previously stated, stable manure, well rotted, will give you 
the finest results, but for larger plantings, it is often necessary to 
resort to @ commercial fertilizer. Here, at Flying Cloud Farms, we have 
found that either Vigoro or Agrico supply the needed elements and 
scratching, brooming, or whatever method of cultivation you use, must 
be done often, — about every fifth day. If it rains, or we irrigate, 
we try to cultivate as soon as it dries out. 
We guarantee our bulbs to be absolutely free of thrips or disease 
when we ship them but advise you to dip them nevertheless. We 
soak our bulbs, as we plant them, in Bichloride of Mercury (Corrosive 
Sublimate) from 8 to 10 hours in a solution of one ounce to seven 
gallons of warm water. This prescribed time is for bulbs with the 
husks on. If you peel the bulbs, six to eight hours is sufficient. For 
this dip, wooden, glass, or crockery containers must be used as metal 
causes a chemical reaction. The Lysol dip is also very widely used: 
1 tablespoon to 1 gallon of water, soaking the bulbs four to eight hours, 
depending upon whether the bulbs are husked or not. We advise 
planting before the bulbs have dried out, when using either of the 
above mentioned dips. 
Another effective dip is the New Improved Ceresan: one ounce of 
this and 3 teaspoons Grasselli Spreader Sticker to 3 gallons of water. 
For large quantities: 2 lb. N. I. Ceresan and 5 teaspoons Grasselli 
Spreader Sticker to 25 gallons water. With this treatment the bulbs 
only have to soak fifteen to thirty minutes but the solution should not 
be allowed to settle. The Ceresan treatment is so much shorter it has 
become popular but you must plant the dipped bulbs the same day. 
As your glads grow, do watch for any signs of thrips. It is 
advisable to spray them when the growth is about six inches high as 
thrips are hard to distinguish and a few at this stage in the growth 
of your glads would multiply enough to make serious damage later. 
As a spray, we have used Tartar Emetic very successfully. The formula 
is: 4 pounds Tartar Emetic, 16 pounds brown sugar, to 100 gallons of 
water. For home gardens use: 1 gallon of water, 114% teaspoons 
Tartar Emetic, and 9 tablespoons (1/7 cup plus | tablespoon) brown sugar 
or molasses. 
Dusting with DDT powder, 5%, while the leaves are still moist, is 
the most recent suggestion, and we have found it to be very satisfactory. 
Any type of dust application, with favorable conditions, is more easily 
applied. This is also advisable in storage. 
have given us excellent results. 
Digging may be done any time from four to six weeks after a 
variety has stopped blooming. Be sure to cut the tops off close to the 
bulb and spread the bulbs out in low boxes to dry, preferably where 
cir can move around them. Your drying conditions will determine how 
soon the bulbs can be cleaned (the old bulb should come easily and 
be destroyed.) Now store in a cool dry place. If you use naphthalene 
flakes, we suggest that you put half a handful on a paper in each box, 
then stack your boxes and cover to keep the fumes confined. If this 
treatment is carried out where the temperature is not too cool, the 
thrips (if there are any) will be more active and the naphthalene will 
take effect more quickly and thoroughly. Leave them two weeks at 
least and then uncover, remove the naphthalene, and store your bulbs, 
as suggested, for the winter. 
To prepare your rows for planting, loosen the soil well to at least 
an inch lower than you intend to plant your bulbs. Use about four 
pounds of fertilizer to 100 feet and work it well into the bottom of the 
trench, — then let it stand a day or two. When the bulbs are set in 
the trench, cover and hill up a bit. As small weeds appear, rake 
down level again and that first crop of weeds is killed. When the 
glads are eight to ten inches high, a surface feeding is advised at the 
rate of four pounds to 100 feet of row. This should be scattered on 
both sides of the row and worked lightly into the soil. A _ similar 
feeding should be applied as the buds appear. 

Cultivation is very important. We use lawn brooms in the planted 
rows on light soil and cultivators between the rows, but hoeing, 

WHOLESALE PRICES — fF. O. B. NEW BEDFORD, MASS. 
Discounts Do Not Apply to This Wholesale List 
If you desire thousand lots of any of the varieties in this wholesale list, the price will be eight times the price 
per hundred. 25 cr more at the 100 rate; 250 or more at the 1,000 rate where available. 
If out of size ordered we will send the next smaller size and add enough extra to offset the difference in price 
unless otherwise requested. 



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