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a spade and cut right down in this circular line. Take out the 

 earth one spade deep, and lay it outside. If the remaining soil 

 is good and deep, spread over it about three inches of well rotted 

 barnyard manure. Spade it in and work it up together with 

 spading fork. 



You are now ready for planting. Set your stake again in 

 the center, draw a line six inches within the border; other lines 

 eight inches apart, to the center. Press the bulbs down in this 

 soil, full depth of bulb. Arrange colors to suit taste. White 

 in the center, then yellow, then red blend well. Now take the 

 top layer of earth which has been laid aside, and spread all over 

 the bed, raising it slightly in the center. Rake off in neat form, 

 and your work is done. While it is not absolutely necessary to 

 "cover" a tulip bed, yet by spreading, say, six inches of coarse 

 manure over it after New Year's, removing it about the middle 

 of March, does give a more uniform crop. Proceed in the same 

 way for the Hyacinth. To grow the Tulip or Hyacinth for the 

 window, put them in four or five-inch pots, the same time as 

 you make the flower-bed. Plunge the pots full depth into the 

 soil, in a sheltered place. Upon freezing, cover with a foot or 

 more of coarse manure. Carry to the house as you need them. 

 After placing in the house avoid freezing and never let the earth 

 dry out. 



x"What about Photo 120?" Oh, yes, yes, I nearly forgot to 

 tell you how to grow Strawberry flowers. Good soil, clean of 

 weeds (clean as you can) and good drainage. A very good way 

 is to manure the ground heavily in spring and plant to early po- 

 tatoes. Let no weeds grow before or after digging. Cultivate 

 in bone-meal after potatoes are dug. Adopt the Peter Hender- 

 son method of setting "potted plants," the latter end of August 

 or early part of September. If you have no Strawberry plants, 

 it may be your neighbor has. Gather up all the small flower 

 pots you have, get permission to lay down some runners. You 

 do it in this way : Select healthy plants, fill the flower pot with 

 soil and with trowel or hoe dig a hole and sink it full length 

 into the earth. Take the runner and place the newly forming 

 bud right on the earth in the flower-pot. Put a little stone back 

 of the young bud that is forming to hold it in place. By the end 

 of August the flower-pot will be full of roots and, if you make 



