272 BULBS 



tulip are now becoming rather common. These and the cottage 

 tulips seem best adapted to American social and labour conditions, 

 because Americans demand long-stemmed flowers for cutting, 

 and do not like the bother and expense of digging and replanting 

 bulbs every year. There are over two hundred varieties of 

 Darwins to choose from. 



TALL CLUMPS ON THE LAWN 



Our common plan of scattering specimen plants all over a 

 lawn is hopelessly bad, and the right thing is to make irregular 

 borders along the sides and at the back of a lot. However, two 

 or three beds of specimen plants may be used on a small place, 

 and strikingly beautiful pictures can be made by planting the 

 tallest growing bulbs. A dozen or two bulbs of the old-fashioned 

 tiger lily, planted in a separate bed, near a projection of the hardy 

 border, may grow as high as a man and present a very stately and 

 showy picture. Lilium Henry i is the only other lily I can recom- 

 mend for this purpose. 



The other bulbs used for bold clumps on the lawn are not so 

 spectacular, because they grow only three to four feet high. Still 

 they are very satisfactory. They are here named in the order of 

 their bloom: Bleeding heart, peonies, lemon lily, madonna lily, 

 summer hyacinth, Japan iris, and Lilium speciosum. These are more 

 permanent that the golden banded lily, hardier than montbretias 

 and the torch lily, and more fitting than the crown imperial. 



OUR CHIEF NEED INSPIRATION 



It is easy enough to get information about the species and 

 culture of bulbs, but what we need most is inspiration about 

 pictorial ways of growing them. There are dozens of such 



