544 FRITZ BAHR'S COMMERCIAL FLORICULTURE 



Fig. 281. Two GOOD PANS OF TULIPS. Left, Murillos, of which seven or eight 



make a showy, inexpensive Easter plant. Grow cool to get short, stiff stems and good 



coloring. Right, Gouronne d'Or, a fine double yellow. Best grown rather slowly in 



8- to 10-in. pots, then kept in a cool place for a few days before Easter 



they deserve to be pushed. There isn't a lover of flowers with a 

 little garden patch who wouldn't prove ready and willing to plant 

 a few Tulips for Spring flowering, if we went after him. Aside from 

 all this, Tulips can be made to pay good profits when grown merely 

 for their cut flowers. 



HANDLING TULIPS UNDER GLASS 



Their treatment is almost the same as that of Narcissi, except 

 that Narcissi can be kept in flats or pans underneath a bench in 

 a coldhouse, while Tulips, in order to give good results, should go 

 outdoors where frost won't hurt any of them. Nothing but well- 

 rooted stock should be brought in for forcing. If a flat or pan to 

 be forced isn't thoroughly rooted or potbound don't attempt to 

 bring it into bloom, for nothing but short stems and crippled flowers 

 will result. 



For early forcing such varieties as La Reine for white; Proser- 

 pine for pink; and Yellow Prince are among the best. And they will 

 not only do finely for early forcing, but are good sorts to have right 

 up to March when, as the Darwins begin to appear, it becomes hard 

 to sell them here. As with the Narcissi, you should figure out what 



