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Gardening for Amateurs 



and window-boxes. Spare or surplus bulbs 

 may be planted in grass, where they will make 

 a show for several years, though they deterior- 

 ate and eventually die out. It is not ad- 

 visable to grow Tulip bulbs in the same beds 

 year after year, as they are very subject to a 

 disease, popularly called " fire," which dis- 

 figures the leaves. Tulips associate splendidly 

 in beds and in borders with Wallflowers, 

 Polyanthus, Arabis, Candytuft and other 

 spring-flowering plants. The tall, stately 



finish ripening ; the bulbs may be stored in 

 an airy shed or cellar until planting time. 

 Tulips occupying permanent positions may 

 be left in the ground for two or three years, 

 but are better lifted, divided and replanted 

 every year, storing the bulbs for a couple of 

 months. Lime freely worked in the soil is 

 one of the best preventives of disease. 



The Best Tulips. The following com- 

 prise a useful selection for general garden 

 decoration and cutting: Very Early Tulips. 



Darwin and Cottage Tulips. 



flowers of the Darwin and Cottage May- 

 flowering Tulips are especially good for this 

 purpose. Tulips are very useful and lasting 

 for cut flower decoration. 



Tulips are propagated by offsets, which 

 separate readily from the mother bulbs when 

 lifted in June or July. It is necessary to 

 lift Tulips from the beds and some borders 

 annually to make room for the summer 

 flowers. When they are taken up before the 

 leaves and stems have entirely died down 

 they must be covered with soil elsewhere to 



opening towards the end of February and 

 during March in warm sheltered corners : 

 Due Van Thol, dainty little flowers in scarlet, 

 yellow, white, and scarlet edged with yellow. 

 These are followed by Pottebakker White, 

 Pottebakker Yellow, Vermilion Brilliant, 

 Proserpine, and Kaufmanniana. April- 

 flowering Single Dutch Tulips : Art us, 

 scarlet ; Cottage Maid, rose and white ; 

 Couleur Cardinal, crimson-scarlet ; Crimson 

 King ; Duchesse de Parma, scarlet, margined 

 gold ; Keizer's Kroon, scarlet, edged yellow ; 



