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The Signal, 1924-5-22, Page 7Gardening in Canada for Amateurs By T.11. RAND-McNALLY Be sure and see our lines. / I- Brophey Bros. !LEADING ADING FUNERAL DIRECTORSAND EMBALMERS •rders carefully attended to at all boars, night or day • 0066111011 Electric Wearing We specialise in Wiring of all kinds. Let tat give you an estimate for wiring your h use or garage. Private Telephones, Motors Dynamos. Electric Bells and Burglar Alarm Systems All Noel Guaranteed Cesk, ire. and Toast by Flsctricity We hair an A..nitttlent of the let F:Itcttic Irons and Toasters male in Canada. ROBT. TAIT EIe'trivia n .it St. I'h*oe 1.5Y w ydro Electric People's Power by Electricity Wash by Electricity Iron by Electricity t Clean Quick than Coal or Wood alk in and see the display Electric 1'acautn Cleaner ves all dust. A broom just moves the dust. } of Electric Goods At the HYDRO STORE Nardi side of Square Goderich J. R. Wheeler Faaessl Director and Embalms. ,11 calls promptly attend ed t1) day or night PHONES Residence 355w Seers 336 Hamilton Street, Goderkk ARTICLE NO. 11 The Gladiolus. The Amateur Gardener's Paradise. Methods of Cultpre. Best Varieties. Writing about the gladiolus InIs given them. exe1ylt freell stable I 1s72, D. W. Beadle. wlw wan utaunre. As In tIK• ease for all but- , hone, or sew{early fleshy rote) then editor of the Willem - tern! 41e•perrru,•n1 of 7'he Canada Former, remarked: "Why Is 11 that th4Na, Ilea utlfuI flow era leave not found their way More universally Into the gardens of our people 1t might be luted to WI. Our (rotate Is well mullet to their culture. nes-11 Inner In 14u41 of the Dominion than that of Ruglan, or France. and they require no more carr than a potato." To -day they arc swung the cone mooned gardt•u flowers we have and it sleets that somewhere in the vicinity of ten tier (settof the people that grow them have reached the stage of issuing cataloguea and ,selling their aurplu. sock. Irl reentry, town and city. it, garters large mei rtuall• formal and Inforulal, whrreyer br{I- A tourist, travelling tar the Rocky Mountain.. was introduced to an old heater who claims to bare klllel no fewer then four hundred bears. Rill," Raid the Introducer, "this f "sr wide! to hear come nfrrer escapes yoa'ee had from benrs." That old man. rubbing his eyes. look- ed the stranger over, end said: "Toting man, If there's iwen any natter e4rape's. the hears had 'em.'. IIe114'e 11( 1,1414,111 141 14 11111,+I. NI. ,•11 it film the -glad" growing in wore or less glory. ae•ordlug to the amount or 411- Ihu,insw that prompted its purchase. Gheliolus bulbs cru ls• bought 4,t +4,q• price nuc w'NIIte to pw}. fruit 14, velar& to $75 each. Mixtures of unidentified sorts often can be Met for 52 a bun- dr.441. Named rarletlee run from tele• for a bulb Of America to $75 for one of Henry Ford. the uewewt and best of We blues The gladiolus, as Beadle knew It. was a pretty poor imitation ..f tit.• flower we know by that Milne to -day SID'.' I'.72 Burbank. I;roti, the ('hitch Floral Company, IA•wline atld Knu- dr.d each have had a hand In the making of A new reef. of flowers from the .1.1 sleek. None of our garden flowers has Tent 'itself more readily to• Improvement by hybridization than hal the glad. Luther Ilurbauk start - Fl this wort. lee dr.pl.-.1 It for other things before results were really be- coming apparent. But hank's Ntewk waw taken otv'r by (;ruff inn enthu- siastic bank manager ante?, tar 1 ti. Canada. by the Child.. people In the 1'nited Sates and by IA•woinr in France. Kwldre,l is a later entrant into the field, but Judging front rt - matte ase of the most 11leeesftal of the hybridizers. Tim oaltcnla' of the work of these men has given us the 4.4.14.. ilf n114' 111Ny call them 11111.111 wldeh are known Ns Groff's. 1'h11d,•NI, 1R-mo{net Wild Kmid r..li. The dis- covery 4.f a variety hating lel over- egrrel eteudnrd e1- central petal In- troduced the 1•rinnllinn+ types. There Is the pheasant little story that the !'rlmullnus was fount grew•Ing will in the mist ehr 1..1 urea eurr,nud- Ing the 7.ambell • Fells In Afrier.. and that the pulpit -like h'14l,s1 shape may 1e taken aft enc 0f Ohl Mother Nature'. adaptation.. to meet condi tione. 'rhe ohJeet of the overhanging petal is believed rel to be to protect the stamens and pistil of the flower from the constantly falling spray. Extreme Kase of Culture in Canada n1111 elm flitted States to - .Int innumerable pimple are• by- 1.ridiziug gladluli 111141 there are en the ion rket over .144111 distluct varie- ties of flower. It is p.•rhapw dela Wile range of choice that .has dune e, ranch 1,1 i 44314tla rIza- the glad. 11 is • of the flowers which have given rive• to a a,elety of rethitstnsla and the 1ilndluin1 Society of Amerle* 111 nue of the most Important And strong eat of the floral ws-IMIeN (14)01 344)0.11 tercel, of amntenra on the continent. It le a truly international organization find this year ('anad4 has the honor ..f supplying it with an able president In the perwIi .1 i)r. E. F. Bente tt, of St. Thome.. Ontario. Probably one feature of the glad Which has 11,011e m111-1 toward Its iw,puIerItr la pia extreme (wet of oil - titre. It millet be said almost that It does not need nny. (iia• frequently 1144'41 111a('14rdeil bulbs that hare been thrown In a tomer somewhere, or in- to a comprod hemp. stick down roots and ironer flow•cre. Gladioli can he grown In any kind of moil exeept pure sand or gravel. Thy hest result' are ebtalnel on Randy loam and on light clay loam, but rv.'n the heaviest of clay, If well worked will grow them and- give a good return of flowers. Fertilisation le simple, as the planta will accept almost any fertiliser that "Best Thing in the World For Delicate Girls" Mau. Jahn ee eatett, Boggy �}' Man., warns:Wit girl had had organic nervous trouble. could not sleep. had mem sed faissiaq .Pfeil. This swat on for three yeah. sad twee doctor helped bw very lit- tle. Aber reedier of what Dr. Chase's Nerve Food had dose for others, 1 sot some for her. She is pow so well that dee is like a Merest child. She is fourteen years old aad looks the pie - tore of beakh. "We have used Dr. Class's Nerve Food for di>fereat members of the family. when recovering from "Au" and scarlet fever, and it has always helped them." Chase's Nerve Food sRases ! Ob., lret., Termite sit N pttes. ia/isaw11ewn, plants, no fertiliser sl Id ever tome i11 tllreet emitted w'ith the hub. To pet the very (herd results the gemmed fur glade should he Immured with well 1-4,111141 barnyard manure the fall pre- views l4, planting. and fairly deeply worked. Where Ude les out leen d N gelidly supply of 0111 manure spelled Into the hell or row 111 114- spring will glee ,•xe•Ilenl returns. ' flitter.•.it kinds 4,f mold ell11 for sltglltly dlffereut depths of planting. I4, a light soil where Raul pre dominates the bullet should Iw - Lut down three to four invitee. 111 hent ler Koh a depth of two IiaJles will be enough to keep the pdauts o4, their feet after they have developed their lung stalks of bhe'w. When plautIug is dime 111 a bed or row wattured In the spring It Is wise to put a half- inch d,1.1h of laud In the bottom of en•h lode where a bulb Is to go. Tbls will tome.. the bulb Ilnwunity from control with the nauurc In the null 41111 will also tend 14, encourage It to throw 4,111 wore bulblets and eormela. After the plants are two or three hetes high ordinary cultural methods of ke•pilug 11e• moll stirred around them will ie• all that one need use. Suceees with gladioli depewM as mncll item the treatment of the bulbs Rud ..eruzels as upon coil or planting. The fleshy root of the glad Is usually called a hull.though ►tierhedly It Is n ,sorra. that le. a llikkenee(l portion of the leaver of the plant NImI1ar to the edible part of GODUICBr ONT. are ten or mere well-0owrloeed buds or eye, nt the lop. Suus•Ilmea oder will find two goal eyes o4, each side of the ev ire, each 4,t whk•h looks as If It would develop Tutu a 'trout Went. liulleread this , kind way he divided Just as p otetetee are rut for planting, tuakhIg sure that each eye leas as large a portion of the bulb as poreible. An Inch -and -a -half bulb way frequently be cut in two and larger bulbs, will often make four good starters. It often happens that such cut bulbs are tuore prolific In Netting bulbleta and tormein than they would have Levu Ii left whole. The differeta•e between bulbleta aed torwell should be fully realised. The eorwel luny be any ruler from white through creetw, yellow, buff, to dark brow ii, depending upon its degree of rIpwwee, and If fully ripe It wilt be almost as hard as a out. The bulblet Is merely a miniature of its parent, haring a thin papery, detachable sklu. The bulblet when flouted will rapidly develop a full-sized bulb and may. by (barer, throw up a. entail flower 'Milk. Me cornet will pro- duce a email bulb which will be of flowering site the [ollowlug year. Ilse Kent M Choose "rite importance of this increase from the routs of the parent is dor to the fact that ell of these bulblets aut eorweig will throw flowers true to the type of the old bolo. Seed from ;Wilton can never Ie depended ulna to reproduce the 1*ir•ut. The Imtaense amount of hy- bridization that has been dune on this flower hes brought it to a ,Mate of what the hybridizers evil complete breaking up of individual (haraeter- Istl's. It is Impew11tde 10 tell from the look of a flower what may Iw mlxrd Up !u 11* parentage, a 114 upon (Twitt- ing the pollen from Otte plant to another the result may be something Teri fine, or 1t mar lie that the new plants from the resulting seed will he nothing but throw -backs to older aned far less desirable generations. Fur example. it cross between two of tlw iest blue varietlee has been known to produce 0tdy one plant of gdest color, all flu real toeing non- descript blooms of no value at a11. It Is. lent -ever, Just this kind of work carefully carried bu which has given us all the wonderful varlets' + which grater the garden to -day. Each of the i famous hybridizer.; has worked to - Healthy Specimen of Gladiolus Bulbs. so onion. The bulbs are obtainable in I many sizes. but lite ordinary coin merdal bulb 1111011111 le f 1!y to 2 Inches In diameter. Some varieties form much larger, (Inner bulbs than others. One often wee them three {M�e•M across. while others growing Medic thyro v44 Ill make much smaller but much deeper itulbs. Increase Very Fant 1Vheu the bulb le first planted It mends down a few ronts which serve 10 attach It to the soil and provide the moisture to enable It to develop the leaves and flowers It has stored up all ready for that season. Within a few weeks It 14.111 siert to develop a new corm on top of the old one Thin new growth ports dean the mala set of roots for that year and in, moat bedew -re mend. out a number of small, hard not -like bodies which are the elrmels. in the fall the plants Are allowed to ripen off, thoiigh it is Just As well If they retain 40111e of the green In their b•nt•er ns 1111.1.1101.5 11111 they hive been growing right up to the hist minute. After the first 11g10 frust the MON are dug by loosening the moll and lifting them with *uffielent care to prevent the breaking oft of the bulblet' and eormclt. NVllen very fine varieties ere being Intel and one wants 10 be Aire of getting all the 1n- vreaoe, It 1s well to spread an old newepnter beelde the pinnt and lift ean•fnlly s4, 111at Hill of the, e.1Ili 11 NtNI terM,•Is are kept together. By drying the hell. arid It. earth In the mitt for an hour or so it Is pnseilde to se•nre every one of the commis. sown to the smallest. The accompanying diagram .Mows' n bath 1411 it looks when lift.', After the 'dents are drl,141 off they may ie (toned Jest ns they are until Ile. rush of the fell work In the garden in over. Then they must be tackled In their winter homy In the cellar and carefully cleaned up. The old Balks are eut off clone to the hath; the old roots Amt the dead bulb are broken off and all of the eormel, carefully eared. in tunny Inetenete It will be found (1al there are two belie, where hut one was yielded tlse opting Ie•fore. With highelate;and expensive varieties title 1e a welcome .tate of &fish.. ()Ben we tint!, however, (hat our moot proud bulb has not made two. Fol this reason It pays to in - septet carefully all bulbs over an inch and a bale in diameter to sea it there 11111* Dress X41/ Your (urS& SORES wiTM ANI/SEPT/t: lam Buk Thursday, it pays to use MARTIN—SENOUR MARBLE -ITE FLOOR FINISH Nothing like it her /fg rlewd Moors • /t wears tike Ittott Write to Hood OfYlce. Montreal Jrobre pooklet MOSAIC PAINTING etAOC cure SOLD BY summer beauties. Just a word in answer to the fre- quent question: "How do you pro- 10unee 11 anyway'!" In England it is GIAdlnlus, with the accent o4, the A. I4, the United t3tatea it la gladiolus and gladioli with the accent on the I. In Canada the accepted pronunciation 1s gladiOlua and gIad1011 ward, the development of hie ideal type of flower 111111 the reault,, are Iur,i In the myriads 0f colors and wide differences of form and ar- rangement of the flowers on the verbal Attslk of the plant. With 5,000 aorta to choose from it. is rather presumptuous- for anyone 1...a11ggest varieties. There are a few outstandingly good end popular once wrhicl, may Iw listed for the benefit of new p,rchamers. Agtong the more common an,1 therefore less expensive varieties are:— v . Amerire - Light Pink Albania White Baron Hulot Blne-Pnrple Byron L. Smith Iwvender-Pink Evelyn Kirtland Tall Pink Flora Yellow 1'immaenlee White Glory of Holland .... White -Rose Red Emperor heat Red Prince of WAIN; Pink -Ruff Sell wA I,PII Yellow (;olden Measure Best Yellow natty Sebum: Lc �forshAll hate .. Salmon -Pink In 1p higher civet both ale to quality and price come the following:— Loveli near Cream Mary Pickford - .. Very floe White Mrs. Dr. Norton Fine Pink Mrs. French; King Pride of Hillegon Sheila Rid Red Salmon Mr. Mark Very fine Blue ('n !bort ne (11,011 Blue ]tine Jay Blue AIkW Ttplady Fits? Orange Ka ffrm Orange King Orange Orange Queen Orange Butterfly Marla Firefly Dawes Salmon Beatty Purple Glory Tire amateur gardener who goes to for glade. should not meas the annual giedlolua show. Thla year the *how la to he held at tea Ontario Agricultural ('allege at Guelph, and the Bat of elaaee% and Awards may he had by making application to the hdrth-nitnral department of that In atftntlon. The rewambi both to pride of aehlcvemwnt and in sefual prises are well, worth going *her and mem- bership 'In tie (Ila4Inln* Society will bring lontaeta With .there who love emtduors and garden for their own sakes and who are keen on the /lams ON FEEDING CHICKEN Helpful (.nunsei From a Wide y known Pou try Expert. Variegated ,Deep Salmon Red Yelow Don't Overfeed at the Start—Feel Sprouted wed 1 ,asked Grains -- Give Them Plenty of Grit—Feed Less Frequently Later — 1IlIleta Sown at Different Uates. leoatrtbute.i by (Milo rho 1'ry'.r, o. 1 01 Aar,cu'1u.e Iur„I,w.l No feed is glee -,1 until the Chicks are nearly three into old. Water may he given to drink a Ito- chill is taken off. The chick+ ale given the feria upon ciente boards a 1 eight Inches_ wide. There Must be 01..11 Ty of boards so that there is roeio on the boars for every chick. A leu 1, d three le - long and eight inches wide will gilt room enough Dor Ott) chicks on IL, start. So says Prof. W. 11. Graham The chicks for the Ont few weeks should be fed about six times daily at regular Internals. Give the Orr' feed in the morning as early as tit. chicks can see to eat and the last at night as late as possible. If growim,; chicks 1n February one feed way 0•• given at night using artificial light Don't Overfeed at the Start. Many chicks are overfed on tit. •start. We have adopted the plan for the Ont Ove or six days in the brood- er of weighing the feed., An expert-, enced feeder may not need to welg:. the feed, but the beginner general,y does better by weighing it. We al- low one ounce of -the dry mixture fot every fifty chicks at each feed; th:u is, no chlcka, for their first five days la the brooder, get wore than spa ounces of dry feed to fifty chicks in one day. The plan followed Is to moisten the first feed with canned tomatoes, the second with eggs, and the third with minced liver, and then begin the series over again. Th.• above amount will not aatelfy the chicks' appetite. They will creats..,a great nolle at every feeding tutee, but tt gives a chance for the chick to ab- sorb completely.the yolk In the body. After the drat period one should feed two or three times each day all that the chicks w111 eat. We begin giving a drinking vessel each of water grind sour milk, when the chicks are about a week old. Many give sour milk to drink at the start, but we have obtained slightly better results by not giving the milk for the first three or four days. Feed Sprouted and Cracked Grain. When the chicks pass the second week, sprouted grains may be fed. also a little cracked gralna. The change should be made gradually from tomatoes, eggs and liver over, to sprouted grains, tender green grass, if available, and a little grain. If leg weakness Is noted, the'toma- toes and sprouted grains should bo increased or the chicks put out of doors on clean tender grass. It is best to rear the chicks on new ground each year, and never to brood two lots of chicks on the same ground In any 01P year. Many chicks arc tent In for examination each year that have troubles due to land Infec- tion. It aleo will be found advantageous if feeding chlcka from trough • or broods out of doors to move the boards or troughs a little every feed. Likewise It must be remembered, when the chicks are fed indoors, to keep the feed board* clean. (live Them Plenty of (1Ht. Grit is always in easy access of the chicks. It ill advisable and necessary to add a tittle oy:rter shell dust or One particles to the ration dally. A certain amount of lime is necessary. Mou:dy feeds. dirty feed boards, and meaty titter are to be avoided. Moulds kill large numbers of chlcka. Be sure your house Is clean and the litter not musty. Do not use cut barley or tye straw as litter for baby chicks, because the beards may get Into the chicks' eyes. Good clean al- falfa makes the heat chick litter we have used. When 1t gets soiled or dirty remove and replace it with clean litter. • Feed Less Frequently inter. As the chicks kct. Older the num- ber of feeds per day may be reduced, 150 that at an age of seven weeks three or four feeds per day are sum- clent; is fact, after the second week hoppers of crushed oats or dry mails may be placed la the pen. The feeds of moist mash are continued it what- ever ataount the chick* will clean up. —Dept, of Extension, O. A. College, Guelph. - F. HUNT GODERICH ROBERT WILSON Frost Fence FOR Hard Wood Baled Hay Baled Straw Homestead Fertiliser Rock -faced Shingles Rubber -tired Buggies Hamilton street Pitons 165 GODERICH The Fight Is Still On Anyone using Counter Check Books should take advantage of present conditions and order for future requirements. The manufacturers have been fighting one another, but any day an armistice may be signed that will end the war, and prices will go up again without warning. Don't Wait A day's delay may mean a big difference in the price you will have to pay for your next lot of books. 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