MORE DUTCH BULBS 



He advertises a thousand Daffodils for ten shillings two 

 and a half dollars ! Miraculous, if true ! It is worth the 

 plunge. 



We have decided to take a slice off the kitchen garden to 

 be kept entirely for bulbs and tubers for cutting. There a 

 hundred " Madonna " Lilies, three dozen Auratum, a 

 hundred Tigrinum, and a few hundreds of other kinds 

 shall be given all the chances that completely fresh soil 

 and good exposure can afford. Five hundred Parrot 

 Tulips, three hundred " Thomas Moore," and a hundred 

 " Bizarres " are to make a field of glory for the harvest. 

 The hundred Gladiolus Brenchlyensis and the hundred 

 Hollandia will rear their scarlet and pink spears / and Iris 

 shall stand in ranks. 



The Mistress of the Villino has still an hour of bliss 

 before her in picking out Iris for her list. The "Florentina" 

 shall certainly be largely of the company, and preference 

 is to be given generally to the misty blue and purple kinds. 

 Then the speculation in cheap bulbs provides a thousand 

 mixed May flowering Tulips. . . . Adam's face will be a 

 study when he finds how much of his cherished potato 

 and cabbage land will be required. But what a span of 

 beauty it will make / and what sheaves of delight for our- 

 selves and our friends ! 



Kvery year the extravagant woman above mentioned, 

 who has got the vice of garden-gambling into her very 

 system, extends her ambitions. But how much is there not 

 still to be accomplished before she is satisfied, if ever a 

 garden-lover is satisfied ! 



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