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are attended to, the tulips will come account of their different heights, called 

 up towards the end of February. From j first row, second row, third row, or 

 the size of a small pea in the first year, ; fourth row flowers ; the first row being 

 the roots will increase considerably ' nearest the sides, and the fourth row 

 during the two following seasons, and being in the middle; of course, both 

 each time when the leaves fade, I sides being alike. There are but four 

 spread over my seedlings about an inch heights recognised. Although we have 

 in thickness of similarly prepared soil said a bed should consist of seven rows, 

 to that with which the seed was cover- ' to make the matter plain to those who 

 ed, being satisfied, that from the loss of have not grown a bed of tulips, every 

 time and the greater extent of land they seven which cross the bed is called a 



occupy by taking them up in the 

 second year and replanting them, it is 

 the better plan to allow them to remain 

 till they have made their third growth. 



" I do not take up mine until that 

 time, and in a few days afterwards I 

 replant them about two or three inches 

 in depth, and about three inches apart 



row; and among tulip growers, wher- 

 ever they speak of a row, they mean 

 the row of seven which crosses a bed, 

 all these sevens being numbered from 

 1 to 50, as distinct rows, or up to the 

 full number, whatever it may be. Tu- 

 lips should be always planted six inches 

 apart every way, consequently a bed of 



from each other, in a well prepared twenty-five feet would take fifty rows 

 bed. Lastly, in every succeeding 1 of seven each. The tulips required will 

 year, I set them in fresh soil, being be 50 fourth-row flowers, 100 third row, 

 convinced that they attain their full I (there being two rows alike of the other 

 size much sooner when treated in this heights) 100 second row, and 100 first; 



manner, especially if sand has been 

 mixed with it, or lime rubbish, which 

 has been enriched with good rotten 

 manure or vegetable soil." — Card. 

 Chron. 



By Offsets. — The same practical hor- 

 ticulturist observes, that — 



and each of these ought to comprise, 

 as nearly as may be, one-third of each 

 class. 



" There should be a few over of each 

 to guard against accident. The parties 

 who supply the tulips should not only 

 send the names attached to each, but 



The side bulbs always reproduce their classes also, 

 flowers identically with those from! " Mark a space twenty-five feet long 

 which they derived their origin. Their and four feet broad, and lying as near 

 period of blooming varies according to as may be convenient north flnd south, 

 their size; it occasionally happens in i Dig this clean out to the depth of three 

 the first year, but sometimes it is six or ! feet. 



seven years before they flower. During 1 " If the soil at the bottom is sour or 

 August the bed must be prepared for | wet, make a drain from the bottom to 

 thetr reception ; and in September they j the nearest place at which the water 

 must be planted from two to four inches can escape ; this drain should be made 

 apart, according to their size. Should | by cutting a trench even with the bot- 

 their planting be deferred till Novem- | torn of the bed all the way to the pro- 

 ber, it is very possible that many of the ' posed outlet, half filling it with large^ 

 smaller ones will shrivel and perish, stones, broken pots, or (for want <)f 

 When they are put into the ground or harder and more lasting substance) with 

 taken up, the same system is followed j faggot wood, and fill up the trench with 



as in the main collection, so that al 

 mistakes may bo avoided, and by that 



the soil of the garden. 



" If the bottom of the tulip bed should 



means the amateur will be able to re- i be gravel, there will require no artifi- 

 place any bulbs which by accident or cial drainage. On the bottom of the 

 otherwise he may have lost in hischoice i bed spread a foot of the common soil 

 or best beds."— Card. Chron. i of the garden ; the real depth of the 



Planting in Beds. — On this part of | bed required for the tulips is but two 

 their culture the best practical informa- I feet ; but in clearing away all that might 

 tion is given by Mr. Glenny. He says — ' prove noxious, and making the ground 



«' A bed properly arranged consists | sound and sweet, by throwing in a foot 

 of seven long rows, of which the tallest of good garden soil, an excellent bottom 

 tulips should be the middle, and shorter- is made, which will not again have to 

 ones nearer the sides. Tulips are, on be disturbed. 



