finally a ‘fiend. When you reach this final 
stage you are hopeless. You think of ‘glads’ 
all day, dream of them at night, spend every 
available minute of your time in the garden, 
talk of them, visit the shows, read all the 
catalogs and spend all your money on them. 
You will look lovingly at the last flower in the 
fall, will handle over your bulbs in the winter 
time and will hardly be able to wait till you 
can lovingly plant the bulbs in the spring. 
From then till the first bloom appears is a 
period of happy anticipation. When finally 
the spikes of blooms begin to appear you are 
in heaven.” 
In which class are you? I have been in the 
last class for years. A number have written 
me that they are ina still more advanced stage, 
the “Damn fool” stage. That must be about 
the height of something. 
PROTECT YOUR GLADS FROM INSECTS AND DISEASE 
D.D.T. DUST 5% with copper 9%. Package of 21% Ibs. for $1.00 prepaid. For an insecticide in storage 
or for dusting in the field. Florida, Louisiana, and west of the Mississippi $1.10. 
D.D.T. WETTABLE POWDER 50% for spraying. 4 lb. package for $3.45 postpaid. This can also be 
used for dusting in the field, but is usually used as a spray. Florida, Louisiana and west of the 
Mississippi $3.75. 
CHLORDANE 40%. In some places thrips have become immune to D.D.T. In that case you need some- 
thing stronger to kill them. Chlordane is it. It will also kill grasshoppers, Jap beetles, cutworms 
and some other insects. 4 lb. bag $4.00 prepaid. In Florida, Louisiana and west of the Mississippi 
$4.25 prepaid. 
Spergon Gladiolus Dust 
Dry powder. Contains Spergon and 3% DDT to be applied to bulbs before planting, or after 
ce the fall, to help control rot and thrips. May be used on gladiolus, tulip, narcissus, iris and 
ily bulbs. 
Recommended by the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station as one of the best fungicides. Price 
2 oz. envelope 25c prepaid. 
1 Ib. can (prepaid) $1.50; Florida, Louisiana, and west of the Mississippi $1.75. 10 |b. can f.o.b. 
$10.75. Write for prices on larger lots. 
Enuff Brand (4 in 1) 
This looks like one of the best things | have seen for a general all round dust or spray for glads. 
If used as a dust for treating bulbs in storage mix a package with 4 times the amount of common talcum 
powder. Also can be used as a spray during the growing season and a package will give you plenty 
of ‘“‘mileage.”’ 
Active ingredients: 
DDT 20%, for thrips. 
ROTONONE 316%, for other insects. 
FERMATE 14%, to make the plants more vigorous and darker green (contains iron). 
ARASAN 20%, to help combat fusarium rot. 
Inert ingredients: 
Extenders and wetting agents, 3514%. These ingredients are all recommended by the experi- 
ment stations and are all compatible with each other. 
8 oz. package _ $1.50 prepaid 
12 0z. package = $2.00 prepaid 
MARTINDALE PROTECTIVE MASKS 
In cleaning bulbs there is always more or less dust which 
rises Which to many people is very annoying. Some people 
can’t work around the old bulbs at all because of this dust. To 
help such people | am offering the Martindale masks which is 
the simplest and cheapest mask of the sort that | have seen. 
Anyone who is at all bothered with the dust from bulbs or dust 
: or fumes from anything else should certainly have one of these 
masks. 
Price 75c¢ prepaid; No. 1 refills, standard weight, per 
package of 25 60c; No. 2 refills, double weight, package of 
25 75c. 
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