BULBS TO PLANT NOW 23'J 



apple juice that we use through the summer is not boiled, but we heat 

 it to a temperature a good many degrees this side ot boiling point, but 

 sufficient to destroy the fermentation germ, and we are able to keep it 

 two or three years. We find it very valuable for our patrons and it is 

 used three times a day on the tables. Very truly yours. 



Sanitarium Store Department, 



Per O. C. Edwards. 



SOME BULBS WHICH SHOULD BE PLANTED NOW. 

 Chapin Brothers, Lincoln. 



Bulbs of one kind or another should be grown by all lovers of early 

 spring flowers. Here are plants for every place and purpose — -beautiful 

 for the formal beds and borders and especially attractive for the wild 

 spots of our lawns. 



For several reasons bulbs are the most popular of any spring flowers. 

 They have so much latent beauty stored in them, and require so little 

 skill from the amateur gardener. Then, too, coming as they do so soon 

 after a long winter, they seem especially symbols of spring. 



Snowdrops, crocus and scillias even bloom while the late snow is on 

 the ground. Not having to forage for food in the spring (the flower 

 having formed the previous year and being within the bulb) they are 

 ready to flower at the first signs of spring. 



The above-mentioned bulbs may be planted in beds or in borders, or 

 among the grass in the open lawn. The soil of Nebraska is especially 

 suitable for bulbs as they do best in a soil which is rather light and 

 loamy. Too sandy soil may be helped by having well rotted manure 

 well spaded in, but this fertilizer must be spaded in sufficiently to prevent 

 it from coming in contact with the bulbs. 



Early tulips such as Yellow Prince, Cottage Maid, La Reine, Duchess 

 de Parma, Tom Moore, Artus, and many others should be planted in solid 

 beds only, in order to get the best results. 



We, however, recommend especially the late tulips for out-of-doors 

 planting. These varieties are as gorgeous as the early ones, perhaps 

 even more so. In addition to this, they have the advantage of blooming 

 about the last of May, when all danger of frost is over. The stems of 

 the later varieties are usually longer, varying from about 18 to 24 inches. 

 Then, too, the flowers last longer, and the bulbs as a whole have more 

 vitality and do not require replanting as soon. Indeed, we have had 

 some bulbs in the ground for six or seven years, and each year fine 

 flowers are produced. The later tulips are more showy in a border than 

 in a formal bed, and should be planted in that way if the best results are 

 to be obtained. 



Among the best of the standard varieties are: Gesneriana major 

 (scarlet), Gesneriana lutea (yellow). Golden Crown (golden yellow striped 

 with red), Picotee (pink), Ida (white), Gala Beauty (vermilion striped 

 with yellow), also Parrots and Darwins. 



