Planting Space for the Home Gardener—for the Commercial Grower 
How much room do Glads take? Actually not very much, but depends on what your ultimate aim is. 
If you want just some nice flowers to keep the house supplied they can be planted as close as five to the 
foot, and rows a foot apart. If you are growing for show purposes, give them a little more room, say 4 to 6 
inches apart. If planting small bulbs 10 or 12 to the foot is not too many as the bloom cannot be expected 
to be too large, but the bulbs should make stock for another year. Even at that, small bulbs given 
plenty of room can often make some spectacular spikes. 
Commercially the rows are spaced from 2 to 3 feet, usually 3 feet. If large bulbs are planted, four to 
the foot is not too many. At this rate 58,000 bulbs would be needed for one acre. Some stagger the 
bulbs in the row, giving each one more room or allowing for more to the acre. 
Bulbs Running Out 
Why do bulbs run out after two or three years? The answer is simply just plain old age. The bulbs 
of some varieties often split up and these splits will carry on for a time, but the quality of your blooms 
is apt to get poorer. You have to grow some bulblets on or else buy some new bulbs every two or three 
years. Some varieties will hold up and produce longer than others, but eventually young blood is needed. 
Prices 
Why is one variety listed at $5.00 each and another at 10c? The $5.00 variety may or may not be any 
better than the 10c one. It simply means that the high priced one is new, stock is very scarce, there may 
not be 500 bulbs in all sizes in existence. It may be a slow propagator but well worth keeping, which tends 
to keep it high. Most $5.00 bulbs will reach the rock bottom price in from four to eight years with a 
gradual decline as stock becomes more plentiful. Quality has nothing to do with price. 
CUT-FLOWER VARIETIES 
We are asked many times each season what our rcommendation in variety would be for cut flower 
varieties. The ultimate result to a large degree depends on the individuals, soil, growing conditions, and 
methods, so no cut and dried list could ever be perfect. 
In naming a list of varieties it is seldom advisable to name any variety that has only been on the 
market two or three years. It’s the tried and proven that will be satisfactory to customers. But we can 
offer a lot of our experience that otherwise would cost considerable money to find out. In naming the 
following list, we have given consideration to hundreds of varieties, new and old. If some of this list 
proves to be a little rich for your pocketbook, it’s our advice to purchase a few small bulbs or bulblets 
and grow them along yourself. They will bloom next season anyway and you will have some good new 
varieties before anyone else does, at a comparatively small investment. 
EARLY VARIETIES PURPLE: Lancaster, Vulcan, Margaret Wood. 
WHITE: Anna Mae, Alpine, Mt. Index, Snow BLUE: Abu Hassan, Ravel. 
Princess, *Lady Ann, White Gold. YELLOW: ‘Spotlight, Golden Arrow, Catherine 
CREAM AND BUFF: Salmon’s Glory, Pactolus. Beath. 
SALMON AND PINK: Friendship, Ethel Cave QRANGE: *October 
Cole, June Day, True Love, Skyway, Polynesia. Orange Prince. 
ROSE: Rose Charm, June Rose. SCARLET: Dieppe, Red Wing, Red Cherry. 
Orange Gold, 
Sunshine, 
LAVENDER: “Huntress, Myrna Fay, Lavender 
and Gold, *Wedgewood. 
BLUE: Blue Beauty. 
YELLOW: Cynthia, Gene, Early Gold, Gold Dust, 
*Yellow Herald. 
SCARLET: Valeria. 
RED: Radiance. 
MID-SEASON VARIETIES 
WHITE: *Leading Lady, Florence Nightingale, 
*Silver Wings, Athene. 
CREAM AND BUFF: Lady Jane, Donna, 
*Patrol. 
SALMON-PINK: *Picardy, Nadia, *Pandora, 
*Spic and Span, Montpelier. 
LIGHT PINK: *Beauty’s Blush, *Phantom Beau- 
ty, Boise Belle, Clarence Fortnam. 
PINK & ROSE-PINK: *Pink Radiance, Tivoli, 
Evangeline. 
ROSE: Chamouny, *Gwen, Burma, Boulogne. 
LAVENDER: *Elizabeth the Queen, Lavender 
Prince, *Gail, *Silver Lustre. 
RED: Red Charm. 
DEEP RED: Mohawk, Black Opal, Dusty Miller. 
LATE VARIETIES 
WHITE: *Surfside PINK: Marion Pearl. 
RED: ‘*Birch Red, PURPLE: Purple Su- 
Regal Red. preme. 
*Indicates varieties that will ship well in tight bud. 
There may be some of the others just as good, but 
our experience is limited with many of the newer 
ones, but all the above are good cutters and should 
make money for you. 
SIZES: You should plant No. 1 bulbs where the 
earliest flowers are wanted, but otherwise No. 2 or 
No. 3 size will make very fine flowers and we highly 
recommend these two sizes. If you are located in the 
deep South you probably will still want No. 1 size 
as the larger the bulb the better the flower for the 
hotter climates. Even No. 4 size will bloom well but 
the stem will not be quite so heavy and it may lack 
some buds. 
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