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Excerpt from Hornberger's Gladiolus Annual, 1933 To build up your soil and make it fertile and productive, you should plow under a good quality and quantity of manure or Green Crops the previous fall before planting. Liming may be done at this time, using finely ground, high grade limestone at the rate of one half ton per acre. Superphosphate, either or has been found necessary in -many soils, and should be added, when planting. Spread in the furrow before planting at the rate of five pounds to 100 linear feet; stir well before planting. This is at the rate of about 750 pounds per acre. If your soil is fairly rich and productive, you may reduce this amount somewhat. The object of this application is to secure flowers of larger size, and to develop higher crowned bulbs. Among the complete fertilizers that have been found desirable are 2 - 16 - 2; 3-12 - 3. If these are used the superphosphate may be eliminated entirely. Just before flowering spikes appear, if you feel you need a top dressing, you may use a nitro genous fertilizer like Urea or Ammonium sulphate, scattered along the row at the rate of one pound to 100 linear feet. The use of nitrogenous and potassic fertilizers, at the time of planting, checks growth and is not beneficial in the production of bulbs and bulblets. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.