1 84 GARDENING BY M YSELF. 



where you can, to have certain beds just 

 set apart for bulbs ; and then you can keep 

 back some of your pot plants to fill them up 

 when the bulb floAvers have passed away. 



For planting the bulbs you need only a 

 good garden soil, well enriched with very 

 rotten manure from the cow-yard, and soft- 

 ened and lightened with sand and leaf- 

 mould if it is too stiff. It is also very im- 

 portant that the bed should be well drained ; 

 therefore never on any account plant bulbs 

 or tubers where the water will stand at any 

 time. 



The same sort of soil may be used for bulbs 

 in pots ; though if you want the ver)" best 

 results (according to Mr. Henderson), you 

 should make for them a compost of decay- 

 ed turfy loam, river sand, rotted manure 

 and leaf-mould, well mixed together. Mr. 

 Vick says where the soil is stiff, it is well to 

 give each separate bulb a little bed of pure 

 sand to rest in. But we are not come to 

 the planting yet ; only I would say, have all 

 your materials ready. The soil and the 



