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both very desirable and equally fragrant, the single variety pos- 

 sessing the advantage of coming into bloom about a fortnight 

 earlier than the double. In the neighborhood of the large cities 

 of the United States a considerable trade is carried on in the 

 flowers, which bring a doUar a hundred in the summer, and ten 

 dollars in winter, and as each bulb will produce some twenty 

 flowers, it will yield, if flowered at the time of high prices, many 

 times its cost by the sale of the blossoms. 



The Tulip. — There is no need of any description of this 

 much-admired flower, and now that the bulbs may be obtained 

 at such very low prices, every one may indulge his fondness for 

 their pretty blossoms by planting a bed of Tulips. And it is 

 when massed in a bed that their full beauty is brought out. 

 They are very hardy plants, requiring no very special care except 

 in one particular, and that is that the ground be thoroughly 

 drained, for they will not bear water in the soil. It is not neces- 

 sary that the soil be very rich. Any good garden will grow 

 them well. Nor is it important that the bulbs should be taken 

 up every summer, although it is usually recommended, on the 

 ground that if the bulbs remain in the earth for several years 

 they "run out." But as every year brings some new additions 

 to the list of Tulips, by the time those that we have planted 

 run out, we are ready to set out a new bed of those of later intro- 

 duction, and are quite willing to dispense with the old. 



The Due Van Thol are the earliest to bloom ; they are both 

 single and double. The double are red with a yeUow border, 

 the single of many colors, white, scarlet, crimson, yellow, etc. 

 The plants are of dwarf habit, only growing about six inches 

 high. 



The Tournesol succeeds the foregoing in time of flowering. 

 The blooms are red and yellow, or golden yellow, and very large 

 and double. They keep in bloom for a long time and are very 

 showy. 



The Early Single Tulips of every shade of red, violet, purple, 

 crimson, yellow, etc., striped, flaked and marbled, come next in 



