When this is done immediately when the flowe- 

 ring is over and they are stored for ripening in 

 a trench, somewhere in the back of the garden, 

 the seedlings of annuals are ready to fill up the 

 open spaces or in case of early bulbs, there is 

 still time enough to sow there the annuals. To be 

 sure of success with bulbous plants in a border 

 care has to be taken about the soil. Either the 

 soil has every two yars to be renewed or old 

 manure has well to be worked in (this applies of 

 course to the places where the bulbs have to be 

 planted). A bulb wants a lot of food, it i.s a gross 

 feeder, and when the bulb is finished there is not 

 much food left. 



Patches of twentig five to fifty bulbs form 

 nicely groups. 



For plants in front of the border we use of 

 course small hardy plants 2, 3 or 4 inches high. 

 The following ought not bo be lifted, as they 

 make gradually lovely patches; Anemone aptn- 

 nina (Apennine Windflower) bright blue and 

 An. ap. alba, pure white (3 in.). They thrive 

 well in leafy soil, and are planted in September 

 and October 1 2 in. deep. Bulbocodium vernum 

 (Spring meadow saffron) reminds one of the 

 rose purple crocus. The 4 in. high plant flowers 

 already in February. Chionodoxa (Glory of the 

 Snow) is a lovely little plant 2 3 in high. The 

 bulb is planted in September and October 2 in. 

 deep. The best kinds are Chionodoxa Luciliae 



(blue with white centre), Chionodoxa Luciliae 

 alba (pure white), Chionodoxa gigantea (bigger 

 flowers-blue) and the Chionod. sardensis (dark 

 blue). The Colchicum (meadow saffron) flowers 

 in autumn. The bulb is planted in July and 

 August, and starts flowering without making 

 foliage in October. Next spring it develops rather 

 big leaves. It is therefore no advisable to plant 

 Colchicum too near the edge of the border. The 

 colours are white, mauve and violet. 



Corydalis (Fume wort) is very pretty, specially 

 Cor: Halleri (violet red), Cor. cava (purple red) 

 and Cor: Alleni (yellowish white). They attain a 

 height of 5 6 inches and flower in March and 

 April. 



About the general use of Crocus we spoke 

 already. Beside the spring crocus there is a 

 special kind called the autumn and winter flo- 

 wering crocus. Of the autumn crocusses we should 

 like to mention: Crocus sativus or saffron crocus, 

 Crocus speciosus (dark blue) and the Crocus 

 zonatus (pale mauve-rose). The bulbs of autumn 

 crocus are planted in July and August 2 in. deep. 

 The tulip Due van Tholl wants a place right in 

 front of the border. Planted in patches of 25 or 

 thereabouts they will not fail to make a glorious 

 splash of coulour. 



Plant right in front of the border the Eranthis 

 hyemalis or winter aconite. As said before, the 

 bright yellow flowers delight our eye when all 



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