SPRING GARDEN AND ITS BULBS 57 



all beholders. Those in pots only began to 

 show a few flower buds on February 7, and 

 were not in bloom till the middle of March. 

 And more than this, the size of the flowers 

 grown in fibre was most remarkable far 

 larger than some I saw near by grown in 

 pots, with every advantage that heat and a 

 skilled head-gardener could bestow. 



Comparing various Daffodils planted from 

 the same stock under both systems, those in 

 fibre are undoubtedly superior in size and 

 colour, and last longer in bloom. This I 

 demonstrated last year at a little bulb com- 

 petition I started for our school children. I 

 planted an old blue and white Dresden soup 

 tureen of very graceful shape, with Princeps 

 Maximus in fibre. When I showed this at 

 the school a marvel of cream and gold from 

 eighteen to twenty glorious flowers the expert 

 visitors could hardly believe that the bulbs had 

 come out of the very same bag as those the 

 little gardeners had grown and grown admir- 

 ably in pots. But really the children's bulbs 

 fairly astonished the visitors, so great was 



