It is no more trouble to raise Gladioli from seed than to raise the most common vegetable; with the simplest garden culture there is an almost absolute certainty of success. Prepare your bed in spring as for any hardy annual; the soil should be made fine and comparatively rich; sow the seed in drills, cover to the depth of one inch, hoe and weed sufficient to keep the soil light and clean, take up the bulbs after the first frost or before if ripe, store them during the winter in a dry cellar or room free from frost, plant them out again in the spring following, and in the ensuing summer very many of them will flower. With the convenience of a hotbed, or frame, bulbs may be produced from seed in one season that will very nearly all flower the second. It will require a little more care and trouble to grow them in this way, but the increase in the size of the bulb will more than pay the extra cost. One of the chief advantages, however, in sowing in a frame is that in case of a heavy storm, the young plants may be protected by the sash that during all heavy rains should be kept closed, as the young plants rarely recover after the leaves have been bruised or broken down.

I know of no pleasure in gardening equal to that of growing plants from seed. - Garden.