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that day we planted about three thousand bulbs on a piece of rough 

 ground in the kitchen garden. They had scarce a drop of rain (for 

 it was a season of drought), and were never watered nor weeded. 

 At the end of June they were taken up and stored away. In the 

 month of October following they were planted in the flower garden, 

 and in the following season made a glorious display. Again, a lot 

 of early tulips, hyacinths, and narcissus, bought in the autumn, 

 were unavoidably neglected until the 1st of March, when they were 

 all planted in the kitchen garden to " save their lives." They all 

 bloomed well the following season, but a great batch of crocuses, 

 planted at the same time, nearly perished. 



The late or show tulips are well adapted for borders, in which 

 they can be left for several years ; but they are not adapted for the 

 parterre, because they cannot be cleared away in proper time for 

 the planting of the summer bedders which should follow. When 

 grown iu proper florists' fashion, they are planted in beds four feet 

 wide, the sorts beiDg arranged so that they graduate in heights from 



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TULIP BED. 



the sides to the centre, as in the subjoined figure. A bed of sixty 

 rows of good named show tulips — that is 420 bulbs in all — may be 

 obtained for £20 ; and as for the early tulips, the prices of the very 

 best range from ten to thirty shillings a hundred. 



A SELECTION OP TWO HUNDRED SHOW TULIPS. 



The following is a list of 200 cheap first-class sorts, which every 

 beginner should possess, as the} - stand in the foremost rank at all 

 our great exhibitions : — 



Bizarees. — First Bow : Albion, Dr. Horner, G-oldham's For- 

 tunius, Golden Fleece, King of Tulips, Marshal Soult, Osiris, Roi 

 de Navarre, Groom's Rubini, Sir Edward Codrington, Lawrence's 

 Solon, Lawrence's Selim, Stein's Napier, Telemachus, Clarke's 

 Ulysses. Second Soiv : Ariadne, Apollo, Bizard Le Kaine, Coro- 

 nation, Charbonnier Noir, Captain White. Darius, Lawrence's Glen- 

 coe, Gloria Mundi, Lawrence's Ostade, Optimus, Lyde's Oddity, 

 Pilot, Lawrence's Peacock, Strong's Titian, William IV. Third 

 Mow : Carter's Leopold, Charles X., Captain Sleigh, Delaforce's 

 King, Lawrence's Fabius, Lord Strath more, Lord John Russell, 

 Magnum Bonum, Milton, Ophir, Polyphemus (feathered), Poly- 

 phemus (flamed), Prince of the Netherlands, Strong's Hero, Sala- 



