Show An In Your Owr Ow W t i D r rI I I eJ b I C iTh s. s WHERE TO PLANT GLADIOLUS Since gladiolus fanciers who plant and grow the corms corrns by the hundred always put them in rows in a part of the garden especially devoted to them a great many amateur amateur amateur ama ama- gardeners think that this is the proper and only wa way to grow them But seldom appear to good advantage c from a pictorial standpoint nt in this wa way The Tho fancier plants his glads all together so that they aro are easier casler to care for Cor and cultivate and eventually eventually eventually ally to harvest In the tho average small garden there thero is not space to devote to a planting of at alone and they must be bo distributed among the other flowers In this way they may be used to excellent advantage to eke out the color scheme when early blooming perennials perennials peren peren- nials have faded All of you have columbines irises and peonies in its your our garden I am sure and since these are the most Important of ot the early flowers after the bulbs your garden should be plentifully supplied with them But the columbines fade toward the end of May the irises are gone in June and the peonies do not give blooms much later For tho rest of ot the season Beason these plants would present foliage only to the eye eyo of the beholder beholder be be- holder bolder where It not for the tho accommodating gladiolus Put your our gladiolus corms corrns In the I ground behind the roots of oC the columbines the peonies or the irises Use three or five corms In Ina a group planting them thom four inches deep and about the same distance apart and be sure lure you use only the same variety in each group When the leaves of ot the glads appear and grow to their apportioned apportioned height the lovely leaves of the columbine or peony will hide that unsightliness near the ground that bareness which is the only fault the gladiolus possesses planted like this will take tale up practically no room in the thc garden and if It your borders are full ull to overflowing as Is s the case with most enthusiastic amateurs this is isa isa isa a benefit indeed However it may be that you ou have havea a large collection of corms which cannot be disposed of ot in this wa va and in that case you ou will wan want t to devote a special plot to them Place them where they will not be in evidence evi dence when the garden is s viewed as asa asa asa a whole in part of the vegetable garden or in a little plot screened by shrubs from the rest of the garden garden gar- gar den picture The easiest way to plant them en masse is to make malce a trench with the thc spade as wide as that implement and four or five inches deep Put the he corms in this trench about four inches apart each way and then cover over them at one operation firming firm i log ing the earth well down Remember her ber er in cutting gladiolus flowers I that hat four Cour leaves should be left on the he plant to allow for the new corm cormo to o mature which it cannot do if it all leaves caves arc are taken and the plant is cut ut right at the ground Some amateurs ama ama- tours in their endeavor to havethe have havethe havethe the tallest stems really lly do this and it is very unwise and injurious QUERIES Esther Bountiful writes writes- My lawn is almost ruined with a sort of grass that seems to lay I along along- the ground ground- and in fall faU it turns brown I even dug dug- up part I of it but this weed veed came again Can Cars you Ou tell me how to get rid c cof of it and what it is 1 Answer This Answer This is crab grass gracs It is only an annual weed and if you youcan youcan youcan can pull it up before it goes to seed that is when it is brown you will eventually get rid of it |