GLADIOLI
Need Careful Feeding Now From now onward gladioli, according to the time of planting, and the flowering period of the variety, will 511 an important part in the colour pageant of the garden. To have the blooms at their best, you must feed till the spikes are fully open. Use alternately at five-day intervals dried blood manure solution (-Joz. in a gallon of water, and l two pints a plant a dose) and a mixture of equal parts superphosphate and sulphate of potash (one teaspoon a plant a dose). When making the applications, avoid contact with the growth, and water in the mixture if the soil is dry. This feeding scheme ensures super gladioli. The only thing that cau possibly go wrong is the locking of buds here and there during cold, showery periods. Then the interrupted spike 'trouble occurs.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 20
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141GLADIOLI Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 20
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