GA RDENING BY M YSELF. 2 O 5 



come from the fresh air, and may easily 

 "■ get a headache" — as Dr. Kane and 

 some other people used to tent life have 

 done, when first obliged to sleep indoors 

 again. 



There are something less than a thousand 

 and one ways recommended for the plant- 

 ing of your hardy bulbs. In ribband lines 

 of different colours ; in separate clumps 

 of one ; in regular one, two, three order, 

 wherein red, yellow, blue and white follow 

 each other without even a chance of escape : 

 all these and many more are directed, ad- 

 vised, and practised. A general helter- 

 skelter style finds favour with some, and also 

 the expensive fashion of having whole beds 

 filled with a single colour and a single name. 

 This may do well in great places, but I con- 

 fess I should think the passed Ami du Cceiir 

 bed would look mournful, with the La Ciler- 

 ies not 3^et in bud. However, where ways 

 are so many, and opinions so countless, it is 

 a doubtful matter to put forth one's own. 

 Indeed for the great bulb owners, who have 

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