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best is to place them alternately from the first to the fourth row, and 

 then to reverse the order to the other side, so that one side of the 

 bed is a counterpart of the other. This may be illustrated by a 

 table, thus : — 



The process of planting may be explained in a word. Prepare a 

 straight lath long enough to reach across the bed. Mark it accu- 

 rately at intervals of six inches. Lay it down from a mark on the 

 board to the corresponding mark on the board opposite. With a piece 

 of stick of suitable size make a hole at each mark on the lath, throw 

 in some silver sand, and then insert the bulb with the crown four 

 inches below the level of the bed, and fill up with silver sand. 

 Many growers reject the sand because in their districts it is ex- 

 pensive. But then in very wet winters they have losses which pro- 

 bably amount to quite the value of the sand, so I do not think upon 

 the whole they are gainers. Every loss makes a gap in the bed which 

 is unsightly, and the sand is a great protection ; therefore I advise the 

 use of it. My bed is now like potting compost owiug to the annual 

 introduction of silver sand during several years past in the process 

 of planting. 



I abstain from discussing the properties of the tulip because of 

 the length to which this paper has already extended. Tor the same 

 reason I say nothing about the awning which is to protect the flowers, 

 though I may on a suitable occasion give a figure of my own, which 

 is all that can be desired for comfort of inspecting the flowers. 

 But I will give a list of cheap first-class sorts, which every beginner 

 should possess, as they stand in the foremost rank at all our great 

 exhibitions. It must not be supposed, however, that those named 

 below can be had at an average of ninepence each ; they will range 

 from half-a-crown to five shillings each, or thereabouts. 



A Selection or 175 Varieties of Show Tulips. 



BlZABDS. 



iirst koio.—KVa\m, Dr. Horner, Goldham's Fortuniiis, Golden Fleece, King of 

 Tulips Marshal Soult, Osiris, Roi de Navarre, Groom's Rubini, Sir Edward Codring- 

 tou, Lawrence's Solon, Lawrence's Selim, Stein's Napier, Telemachus, Clark s 



Ulysses. ^ . ^, ■, • xt • 



Second i?ow.— Ariadne, Apollo, Bizard Le Kaine, Coronation, Charbonnier Noir, 

 Captain White, Darius, Lawrence's Glencoe, Gloria Mundi, Lawrences Ostade, 

 Optimns, Lyde's Oddity, Pilot, Lawrence's Peacock, Strong's Titian, William IV. 



Third -Roiv.-Ca.rter' a Leopold, Charles X., Captain Sleigh, Delaforce s t-mg^ 

 Lawrence's Fabius, Lord Strathmore, Lord John Russell, Magnum Bonum Milton, 

 Ophir, Polyphemus (featliered), Pulyphemus (flamed), Prince of the Netherlands, 

 Strong's Hero, Salamander, W.alker's Kiag. , -r, n- -p r 



Fourth iJow.-Ditkscn's Duke of Devonshire, Lawrence's Donzelli, Emperor of 

 Austria, Lord Collingwood, Proteus, [Sharp's Victory {alias Sultan), Lawrence s 

 Sheet Anchor, Warsaw. 



Byblcemen?. 



First i2oio.— Bienfait, Chellaston Beauty, Euclid, Gloria Alboram, La Belle 

 Narine, Pamigiaua, Goldham's Prince, Queen of the North. 



