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White : Alida, White Pottebakker, Jagt van Delft, Luna, Nonsuit. 



Various: Roi Pepin, white and crimson; Due d'Aremberg, crim- 

 son and gold ; Florida, deep mauve ; Keizerkroon, crimson and gold ; 

 Thomas Moore, yellow and buff; Van der Neer, puce; Prosperine, 

 crimson ; Bonaparte, chocolate. 



Double : The best doubles for a group are La Candeur, Res 

 Rubrorum, Tournesol, Yellow Rose. 



THE BULB GARDEN. 



jOW is the time for laying in a stock and planting ; the 

 latter operation, indeed, should be no longer delayed, 

 for it is desirable every bulb should be well rooted 

 before winter. Nature is a sure instructor in this duty 

 of early planting ; for keep them where you will, bulbs 

 now give signs of life. Hyacinths, tulips, and crocuses are deve- 

 loping their leaf-buds, and unless the formation of roots keeps pace 

 with the growth of foliage, the future plant will suffer. I have 

 generally observed in gardens a great parsimony in reference to bulbs 

 in the open air ; they are planted too far apart, and there are too few 

 of them to make a good display. Yet what can better repay all the 

 labour and money expended on them ? How dull will the garden 

 be for many months if this interesting class of flowers is neglected. 

 The growth of bulbs is indeed a winter and spring study, and a 

 most beautiful style of gardening has been enjoyed and has dis- 

 appeared before the beds can admit the tender exotics which are to 

 adorn them in summer and autumn. 



My advice is, to be generous now. If you can afford to do so, buy 

 crocuses by thousands, and tulips and hyacinths by hundreds. Re- 

 member they are all very fond of increase, and with care your outlay 

 will come back with interest. But be careful how ycu buy. Go to 

 a respectable florist and not to auctions, and lay in a stock of healthy 

 and sound bulbs, and next season you may calculate on adding 

 seventy-five per cent, to your collection, without reckoning small 

 offsets. Crocuses and tulips multiply without much trouble ; and I 

 have found by some years' experience that hyacinths may be suc- 

 cessfully propagated here as well as in Holland. Quantity is indis- 

 pensable if you would be a bulb amateur in the garden, and the 

 outlay of a few pounds will make you the envy of your neighbours, 

 and become a source of profound enjoyment to yourself. There are 

 many other bulbs besides those I have mentioned, which ought not 

 to be neglected, and the above kinds are only adduced as examples. 

 These bulbs may be grown in beds or in borders, according to room 

 and circumstances. Have^ at any rate, one bed appropriated to 

 crocuses, that your eyes and heart may be gladdened, when in 

 January or February a kindly sun calls forth their gorgeous beauties. 

 Let this bed, intended for early effect, have every advantage you can 

 give it, sloping towards the south, well drained, and composed of 

 friable, generous mould. Such a bed may have a few early tulips 



