The Planting of Fall Bulbs 



they can be procured from the florist (which 

 is usually in September) until the ground freezes. 

 They will grow and bloom to perfection in any 

 good, well-drained garden soil, providing it is 

 not infested by moles and ground mice but beware 

 of these, as they seem to possess an insatiable ap- 

 petite for bulbs and once they have entered a bed 

 will seldom leave it until they have exhausted its 

 resources. 



I recall that a few years ago I planted, in an 

 empty canna bed on the front lawn, some five 

 hundred choice, named tulips. The following 

 spring just three tulip plants appeared above 

 ground — the moles having destroyed the other 

 four hundred and ninety-seven. In the flower 

 garden where other hundreds of bulbs had been 

 used to border beds of hardy perennials, they 

 fared somewhat better, the greater part coming 

 up, but many had been destroyed and still others 

 carried far from the place of their planting, com- 

 ing up as much as three feet away in the middle 

 of paths and in sod. 



One of the most satisfactory ways of using 

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