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deep, moist loam. The depth to plant varies according to the size 

 ot tne bulb, trom three to five inches is about the average and from 

 four to six inches apart. 



The narcissus are of longer life than most bulbs. There is a 

 field in New Jersey where the daffodils which once surrounded an oia 

 garden have been multiplying and blooming without care for over a 

 hundred years. There are many varieties some fifty or sixty of which 

 are exceptionally good. Among these are: Emperor, Golden Spur, 

 Henry Irving, Empress, Princeps, Victoria, Princess Ida, Sir Watkins, 

 Stella, Ornatus, Poeticus, Triumph, Van Sion, Campbell, Jonquil ana 

 J. M. Camm. 



Hyacinths are popular, both because of their fragrance and 

 beautiful colors, the lavenders blues and purples which are so scarce 

 in other flowering plants. These should be planted in a deep, well- 

 spaded and loamy soil, about four inches deep and six inches apart. 

 The best effect with these is obtained by planting them in formal 

 beds- 



This list, although very incomplete, serves to remind you that all 

 spring bulbs should be planted before Noevmber 15th. 



THE EAST AND THE ^"EST. 



C. S. Harrison, York, Nebr. 



We will suppose a cast of two men with the two different systems 

 of putting their theories in practice. Hiram Jones is from eastern 

 Massachusetts. He has fallen heir to a fine Nebraska farm — a gift 

 from his aunt, who secured it by mortgage which fell due and could 

 not be paid, along in the disastrous nineties. The farm is out in 

 Phelps county, near Holdrege. He was delighted with it. The crops 

 on the adjoining farms were fine. The corn gave promise of an 

 enormous yield and the country seemed very phosperous. The soil 

 was deep and rich, and he said; "If they had such land in the old 'Bay 

 State' they could do wonders with it." He visits the nurseries at 

 York, Geneva and Crete and has a feeling of deep pity for the nur- 

 serymen, who are so much behind the times and so deficient in so 

 many ornamentals which he deems so important in adorning a home. 

 They intimate that there must be a different horticulture for the 

 west and different class of evergreens, trees and shrubs. But he is 

 a graduate of Williams, has studied at the Buzzy institute, has spent 

 much time with Dawson in the Arnold arboretum, is a member of the 

 Massachusetts horticultural society, and is well acquainted with the 

 leading nurserymen of the state. He is sure he can make his eastern 

 favorites grow in Nebraska. He has great faith in himself and his 

 teachers. He has had Professor Bailey's books and no one can sur- 

 pass Thurlow, Whittier, Manning and the Meehans, and a host of 

 others who are at the head of the profession. The Nebraska nursery- 

 men let him talk. They have been along the same road and left behind 

 them for any new men who wanted to go that way. 



