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A FEW POINTS IN REFERENCE TO BULBS FOR 

 THE OPEN AIR. 



NOW that open-air flowers are 

 over, and tlie flower beds may 

 be cleared of their summer decorations, 

 it would be well to remind the amateur 

 of the advantages gained by planting 

 such beds with a liberal supply of 



ANN SiMMKKS, TORONTO. 



life in the garden, where the beds have 

 been tilled with a good selection of 

 bulbs. In a few weeks from the time 

 they make their first appearance, they 

 change the dreary spectacle to one of 

 beauty, and this may easily, as well as 



spring flowering bulbs. What can be 

 more cheering to a lover of Nature, 

 after the garden has been covered with 

 its usual quantity of snow for three or 

 four months, than to see upon the first 

 appearance of spring some attempt at 



cheaply, be done by planting certain 

 varieties of open-air bulbs. The keep- 

 ing of the garden well stocked with 

 pretty flowers from middle of April 

 until end of October may be assisted 

 by such fall preparations. Of course. 



