OUR SENTIMENTAL GARDEN 



Gladiolus Hollandia is described as the " Pink Brench- 

 lyensis/' and is much recommended. We have never 

 grown her yet, but her scarlet cousin is a great success 

 in our garden. We find our Gladioli do so much better 

 when planted in the spring, that we are asking the firm not 

 to send them to us for another seven months. But they 

 are included in the autumn list so that he may reserve us 

 good sound tubers. 



It is evidently against garden decorum to mention the name 

 of a horticulturist, for some garden writers make a point 

 of assuring the reader that they will never be guilty of such 

 an indiscretion / but we see no harm at all in paying, by 

 the way of this discursive pen, a tribute to the perfect 

 satisfaction hitherto afforded us by our chosen bulb grower, 

 Mr. Thoolen, of Haarlem. His Tulips, Hyacinths, and 

 Narcissi have stood the test for three years. Of course, 

 in our soil we cannot expect more than one good season 

 out of anything except Crocus, Scilla, and Narcissi. 

 Daffodils, which up till now have been unaccountably 

 absent from our garden plans, are to be heavily indulged 

 in this year. Besides what appears in the above list we 

 are venturing on another thousand from a certain Mr. 

 Telkamp, likewise in the land of windmills. 

 The following is the order which we have just dispatched 

 to him : 



" 1000 Daffodils for naturalization. 

 100 Retroflexa Tulips, soft yellow. 

 100 Bouton d'Or Tulips, deep golden yellow. 

 100 Caledonia Tulips, orange, dark stems. 

 1 00 Golden Eagle Tulips, fine yellow. 

 200 Count of Leicester, yellow orange tinted/ 7 

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