186 Remarks on the cultivation of the Tulip. 



ent appoarance. West pond, Plymouth, Mass. Mr. Tuckerman, 

 1839. Tlie common form is very abunJant, at the same locality. 



Tsoetes lacustiis L. 



In Fairfield, Conn., and in Uxbridge, Mass. Dr. Robbins, 1829 

 and 1830. 



Ipswich, Aprils 1841. 



Art. III. 8ome Remarks on the cultivation of the Tulip. 

 By S. Walker, Roxbury. 



After several years of care, of labor, and of pleasure, in 

 the cultivaiion of the tulip, I will, with your permission, lay 

 before your readers my mode of culture; in doina; this, permit 

 me to propose the following statement, with this single remark, 

 that by the treatment and management now submitted, I have 

 bloomed many thousands of bulbs, for several years, with very 

 considerable success. 



Nothing tends so much to ultimate success, as a good begin- 

 ning; I shall therefore connnence by jiointing out a suitable 

 location for, and the formation of a tulip bed; with a descrip- 

 tion of the soil, and compost, for the successful cultivation of 

 this beautiful flower. 



THE BED. 



Its location. — The bed should be placed in an open, airy 

 situation, free from the shade of trees, and so far from 

 any building, that the rays of the sun may rest upon it from 

 its rising until four o'clock in the afternoon; it should also 

 have a good drainage to carry off any surplus water; for this 

 purpose, (if the land lies low, or on a level,) a trench should 

 be dug around the bed three feet deep, three feet wide at the 

 top, and two and a half feet wide at the bottom; the trench 

 should be filled up with stones, to within eight inches of the top, 

 upon which should be placed three or four inches of sea weed, 

 or carpenter's shavings, and then covered over with gravel or 

 sandy soil; but when a situation elevated some three or four 



