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squares four inches for Tulips, seven for Hyacinths 

 and set a bulb at each corner. The centre of the 

 square may be filled with Crocus or Scillas, which will 

 have finished blooming before the larger flowers are 

 out. Only Tulips of the same height and season of 

 bloom should be set together. 



Scillas and Crocus together make a bed that can 

 hardly be surpassed in bulb planting. The effect is 

 best where only the white Crocus is blended with the 

 blue of the Scillas. 



Protect the bulb beds with rough manure, leaves, 

 and evergreen boughs during winter. Remove the 

 protection gradually in the spring, and leave the finest 

 of the manure to enrich the soil. 



When through blooming in the spring, and the 

 foliage has ripened, the bulbs may be lifted, dried, 

 and stored away in a cool place until fall. All these 

 bulbs increase rapidly, both by multiplying and by 

 seed. Neglected beds of Tulips seem to multiply and 

 perpetuate themselves indefinitely, but the new plants 

 will be found to be all from seed, as the Tulip forms 

 its new bulbs at the base of the old, and if they were 

 not frequently taken up and reset they would grow 

 so deep in the ground that all the strength of the plant 

 would be exhausted reaching the surface, and there 

 would be no bloom. The seedlings make robust 

 plants, and do not deteriorate materially. 



The seed formation of the Crocus is very interest- 

 ing. If dug a few weeks after its season of bloom 



