Archive image from page 14 of Descriptive list of gladiolus (1934). Descriptive list of gladiolus . descriptivelisto1934cham Year: 1934 pretty strong and the lake was acting up. It sure was a wet ride. When we got about thirty rods from shore J. D. wanted to go back. As J. D. had visited the Fair the week before and seen most of the worthwhile things we spent a good share of the afternoon on the midway. I wanted to take J. D. on the roller coaster but this is a thing that needs a strong heart and not knowing J. D's physical condition 1 didn't want to take any chances and have anything happen
Archive image from page 14 of Descriptive list of gladiolus (1934). Descriptive list of gladiolus . descriptivelisto1934cham Year: 1934 pretty strong and the lake was acting up. It sure was a wet ride. When we got about thirty rods from shore J. D. wanted to go back. As J. D. had visited the Fair the week before and seen most of the worthwhile things we spent a good share of the afternoon on the midway. I wanted to take J. D. on the roller coaster but this is a thing that needs a strong heart and not knowing J. D's physical condition 1 didn't want to take any chances and have anything happen to our best known and best loved glad grower. Hope we meet there again this year, J. D. GARDEN RECORD. Of course every grower will keep his varieties labeled with a good strong label marked with an indelible pencil. There is a pencil, Dixon's Rainproof No. 808, that is considered about the best for marking labels. But it is also well to keep a chart of your garden with all the varieties marked down in case any label should get broken or pulled out. This proved of great use to me this past season when some vandals got into my garden and pulled up and threw away a lot of labels. If I had not had my chart in the house I would not have known what these varieties were as it happened about at the end of the blooming season when there was hardly a bloom left in the field. BLOOMS FOR EXHIBITION. If you are growing glads for exhibition you want them just the best you can grow them. I understand that exhibition growers dig out all the eyes on the bulbs but one so that only one shoot will grow and all the strength of the bulb will go into that one shoot. After they are growing in good shape give them two or three light feedings of mixed fertilizer and water it in If the ground is dry at all give them a thorough soaking at least once a week and then scratch over the surface of the ground so as to retain moisture. If there is any danger of the stems crooking stake them up and tie them so th
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