To make a good display of Gladiolus during the summer and autumn, the bulbs should be planted at intervels of two or three weeks. Those planted first will, of course, ripen first, and I have found that it does the bulbs no good to let them remain in the ground for any considerable time after the stems and leaves are dead. Many of the earliest planted are now ripe, and I am digging and drying the bulbs preparatory to placing them in their winter quarters. When one cultivates an extensive collection it is no easy task to keep each variety separate when digging, drying and storing. After trying several different methods, such as keeping in flower pots, bags and small boxes, I have adopted the following described style of boxes: Select boards one-half inch or more in thickness and a foot wide, cut into lengths of four or five feet; then take common siding, six inches wide, and nail them around the wide board, which is to be the bottom of your box. Put one strip of sid ing lengthways through the center, and then divide the sides into small sections, using the same kinds of boards for partitions. In this way we can have ten to twenty boxes all attached, each holding six to twelve bulbs.

Such cases are very convenient, for they can be taken into the garden, and as the bulbs are lifted each variety with the label dropped into one of the sections, and when the divisions are all full, the case can be carried into some out-house where the bulbs will dry without further trouble. The cases are set away for winter just as they came from the garden, and whenever a bulb of any particular variety is wanted, it can be found without difficulty, as the label should be placed on the top of the bulbs. In the spring the cases are carried out into the garden with the bulbs, and the labels in a convenient shape for using. By using such cases as described, I have been able to keep from one to two hundred sorts of Gladiolus without the least trouble in the way of their becoming mixed, or in lifting, drying or storing in the winter. - Rural New Yorker.