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will often nest under it and take their meals out of the bulbs. When 

 planted in wild or semi-wild situations the natural covering of leaves 

 and grass is sufficient. 



Many people discard their tulips and hyacinths after the season of 

 flowering is past, as they never give the same satisfaction a second season. 

 If one has not the heart to do this, and the beds are wanted for the summer 

 bedding plants, the bulbs should be carefully lifted, the flower stalks cut off, 

 and the bulbs planted again closely in shallow trenches in some shaded, 

 secluded place where they may finish ripening their foliage and may 

 rest until fall. They may then be lifted and planted in irregular shaped 

 colonies in the mixed flower border, where they should remain permanently. 

 Daffodils, crocuses and other bulbs do better if they can remain in the 

 beds when once planted, but if the beds are wanted for summer-flowering 

 plants the bulbs may be treated the same as tulips and hyacinths. 



Almost all bulb catalogues designate the kinds most suitable for bedding, 

 together with the colours, single or double, early- or late-flowering, and 

 quotations per dozen, per hundred, and per thousand; and while the 

 best prices wih, of course, secure the best quality of bulbs, which will 

 produce rather the largest flowers, yet I do not ever remember to have 

 seen a poor variety of any of the fall bulbs. 



