. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GLADIOLUS In the first method all that is necessary is to separate the conns growing from the original, either when clean- ing in the fall or before planting in the spring. When seeds are sown, the seedlings should all pro- duce corms of flowering size in 3 years. Seed
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture : comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. GLADIOLUS In the first method all that is necessary is to separate the conns growing from the original, either when clean- ing in the fall or before planting in the spring. When seeds are sown, the seedlings should all pro- duce corms of flowering size in 3 years. Seed should be planted very early in the open ground on rich, sandy soil and not allowed to suffer in the least for lack of. moisture. At the end of the first season's growth the corms of the seedlings will be the size of peas, and can be stored under the same conditions as large corms. The second season plant the corms as if they were gar- den peas. Some will bloom the second year, and all should bloom the next. Increasing stock by the small corms or bulblets is the most common method, and the one by which a variety is perpetuated. The small corm is but a cutting; nr eye, and can be stored in bags, boxes nv nili, i- ^ re- ceptacles and kept from frost. It is a li, Ip to ^ if the corms are not allowed to dry fut during' iln' pe- riod of rest. They should be planted like 1-year seed- lings, making blooming bulbs the first and second year. E. H. Cdshsiajj. AAA. From the An The garden evolution of Gladioli in general is ex- plained at length below. The writer has been asked to present the American share in this interesting history. Some ten years ago, when the writer began, under the inspiration of Luther Burbank, his own work in hy- bridization, the best American-grown stock available was the Hallock collection of some 400 named varieties of Gandavensis and about 100 of the earlier Lemoine hybrids, all of European origin. After trial, the writer placed them all in mixt
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