striking plant. And when the sun shines and the 

 sweet-scented breeze is towards you - it is 

 something never to be forgotten. As a striking 

 contrast look at those beds where the colours 

 run riot, bright scarlet, reds, and yellows. They 

 aie beds of early tulips, just as clarion calls in 

 the stillness of the spring. 



A still greater attraction have the late May 

 and June flowering tulips: the Darwin, Cottage, 

 Breeder, Parrot, Rembrandt tulips. Nearly all of 

 them have long elegant stems and they can be 

 had in an infinite range of colours. Fancy a bed 

 of those glorious tulips, slightly moved by a 

 breeze, it is a wonder of beauty. 



And realize that all the lovely things, all the 

 beauty we have spoken about, is within your 

 reach. Even if you posses a small garden you can 

 enjoy the beauty of bulbs and that for a com- 

 paratively small amount. Indeed the bulb 

 material for gardens is nearly inexhaustible and 

 happy the man who knows well how to use it. 



Bulbs for Bedding. 



The custom of making ,,flower beds" is a very 

 old one, and although in the last thirty years the 

 making of borders and the planting of flower 

 groups among shrubs took the place of the old 

 fashioned Victorian mosaic beds (and rightly 

 so), a well' arranged bed of bulbs, surrounded 



by well kept turf, remains very attractive indeed. 

 Of course one has to select the proper kinds of 

 flowers to make a bed ,,do it". The early spring 

 bulbs, we spoke about in the beginning ,,Snow- 

 drops, Aconites, Squills and Chionodoxas cer- 

 tanily will not do. They are better planted 

 amongst shrubs, in the border of a shrubbery. 

 Even Narcissi will not do so well in a bed. We 

 plant them by preference in clumps in the grass 

 - under trees or in a border. The best bulbs 

 and corms for bedding are Tulips, Hyacinths, 

 Anemones, Crocus (although they are lovely in 

 the grass), Dutch, Spanish and English Irisses, 

 Scilla campanulata, etc. They all attract the eye, 

 they have a regular habit of growing; and, 

 because of the infinite range of colours, they can 

 be made to a part of the whole colour scheme. 

 The planting is comparatively easy. Rake your 

 bed, and take away the top soil to a depth of 3 

 in: for tulips; 3 4, in: for Hyacinths. Put the 

 top soil on a heap next to the bed. Dig the bed 

 well, adding, if necessary, decayed manure. Pirt 

 your bulbs on top of the raked soil, and bring 

 carefully the top soil over the bulbs, rake the 

 top of the now finished bed smooth. If planting 

 Tulips, Hyacinths, or Irisses, take 60 80 per sq. 

 yard. Crocus or Sciila 90 100 per sq: yard. It 

 depends largely on the climate whether it is 

 necessary to cover the bed as a protection against 

 cold weather. In the South of England it won 't 



