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to it, (which they will do,) and that the bulbs may not be 

 injured by it, as is apt to be the case if too much dung is 

 used around them. The best time for planting the bulbs is 

 early in November, and the beds should be made a fortnight 

 previous, in order that the earth may become sufficiently 

 settled. 



If severe frosts set in after the Tulips show themselves 

 above ground in the spring, some protection should be given; 

 single mats placed over hoop bends answer very well ; and 

 at the time of bloomino:, an awninof should be erected over 

 them, to screen them from the intense heat of the sun, which 

 awning should be sufficiently spacious to admit of persons 

 walking under it, to view the beautiful flowers to the great- 

 est possible advantage. 



TUBEROSE. 



This fragrant and delightful flower has been cultivated in 

 English flower gardens for upward of two centuiies ; there 

 the bulbs are generally cultivated in pots early in the spring, 

 and transferred to the flower borders as soon as it becomes 

 settled warm weather ; for they are very tender. They 

 generally succeed very well here, if planted at once in the 

 open border toward the end of April, and produce flowers, 

 which are pure white, and highly odoriferous, on a stem three 

 to four feet high. 



The bulbs produce a number of offsets, which should be 

 preserved with the parent plants through the winter, and 

 then parted off" and planted by themselves, in April or early 

 in May, to produce flowering roots for the ensuing year. 

 These roots thrive best in a light rich soil, well pulverized, 

 in which they should be planted about two inches deep, 

 not forgetting to take them up again before the approach of 

 winter. 



