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The Weekly Florists^ Review. 



October 14, i..,og 



A SpringTop-dresting. 



The foregoing, list comprises a number 

 of really good and reliable varieties, but 

 many others will succeed equally ■well if 

 similarly planted. None of them want 

 manure at the root, but a top-dressing 

 of manure in early spring will prove ben- 

 eficial, if well decayed. 



About everyone who has once tried a 

 few daffodils in the grass wants more the 

 second year. Florists who are anxious 



Soil and Treatment. 



The time to plant tulips in the open' 

 depends on the locality, but the middle 

 to the end of October will be about right 

 in the northerly states, while November 

 will answer well farther south. The bulbs 

 lose considerable vitality if kept out of 

 the soil late. Better plant them a trifle 

 deeper to offset any danger of their 

 starting too early. Bulb beds want the 

 soil thoroughly pulverized and any ma- 



Tulipt Chrysolora and Belle Alliance in a Rochester Park. 



to extend their bulb sales might do worse 

 than cater to this growing trade. There 

 are some growers who could probably 

 naturalize a few on their own place. 

 They would serve the double purpose of 

 utility and beauty, to say nothing of 

 proving a good advertisement. 



The debt of gratitude we owe to the 

 late Peter Barr cannot be adequately ex- 

 pressed. To his tireless energy and pains- 

 taking labors are due many of the finest 

 sorts we are growing today. But for 

 him the narcissus would not be holding 

 the commanding position it does in the 

 bulb world today. W. N. Cbaig. 



BEDDING TULIPS. 



Their Unfailing Popularity. 



Tulips remain by far the most popular 

 of spring bulbous plants for bedding. 

 Hyacinths are, if anything, less used 

 than a decade ago, while narcissi have 

 not yet become properly appreciated for 

 this purpose. In the near future, how- 

 ever, they will give tulips a close race, 

 even for bedding. Tulips have the ad- 

 vantage in regard to colors, most of 

 the narcissi being either yellow or white, 

 while the tulip family has about every 

 color of the rainbow. 



Beds of mixed tulips look well and are 

 in good taste. The colors harmonize 

 well. The same cannot be said of hy- 

 acinths. Beds of one solid color or 

 variety are decidedly preferable to those 

 quartered or otherwise divided for color 

 effects. The time was when a circle would 

 consist of alternating rings of scarlet 

 and white, and a square bed would be 

 chopped up like a patchwork quilt of 

 riotous colors. Now if the beds are not 

 one variety, the only change will be a 

 band of some color distinct enough to 

 show up the other variety. 



nure used should be well decayed. Among 

 fertilizers, fine bone, sulphate of potash 

 and soft coal soot are good if carefully 

 mixed in the soil. A little lime will be 

 helpful in correcting any acidity in the 

 soil. 



The following, in their respective col- 

 ors, are hard to beat as bedding tulips: 

 White, Joost van Vondel, White Potte- 

 bakker, White Swan, Queen Victoria; 

 the first named is the finest white tulip; 

 White Swan is a splendid late one; Queen 

 Victoria (La Keine) comes tinged with 

 rose; it is a useful variety for edging; 

 yellow, chrysolora, Mon Tresor, Golden 



Austria, 

 iieautv 



Maid; 



Potte 



'• Dar- 

 "^ red, 



(1 yel- 

 , Bride 



\' half 

 !■ any. 

 Joost 

 "kroon, 

 niilion 



Queen; orange, Prince ,of 

 Thomas Moore; pink, Pink 

 Queen of the Netherlands, Gotta-.: 

 rose, Proserpine ; scarlet, Scarii- 

 bakker, Vermilion Brilliant, Gr; 

 ling. Sir Thomas Lipton; d; ■ 

 Couleur Cardinal, Dussart; red ; 

 low, Keizerkroon; red and whit 

 of Haarlem. 



Of the foregoing, the follow i. 

 dozen are inexpensive and good i 

 one wanting only one or two sort^ 

 van Vondel, chrysolora, Kei/ 

 Proserpine, Thomas Moore, V' 

 Brilliant. 



Tasteful Combinations. 



While tulips in solid beds are ti (^ most 

 effective, the following combinatio is seen 

 last season were in good taste ami quite 

 pleasing: A large circle planted with Sir 

 Thomas Lipton, scarlet, with a broad 

 edging of Joost van Vondel, wliite; a 

 similar bed of Keizerkroon with :i band 

 of Queen Victoria (La Beine) ; Vellow 

 Pottebakker bordered with Thomas 

 Moore; a large oval bed with equal por- 

 tions of Chrysolora and Duasart, deep 

 crimson; a square bed of Couleur Car- 

 dinal edged with Joost van Vondel; a 

 ribbon border with Joost van Vondel 

 Ophir d'Or, yellow, and Wouverman, 

 dark purple. White Pottebakker and 

 Chrysolora, planted in quarters opposite 

 each other, looked well, the contrast be- 

 ing less violent than if a scarlet or 

 crimson had been used. Prince of Aus- 

 tria, President Lincoln, light violet, and 

 chrysolora made a harmonious trio. 



In Perennial Borders. 



While tulips are largely used in formal 

 beds, they are extremely effective planted 

 in clumps through perennial borders, 

 from half a dozen to twenty-five bulbs 

 together, according to the size of the 

 border. Used in this way, they need 

 only to be lifted every second or third 

 year. Perennials or annuals will cover 

 any blanks left when they die down. 



In spring when the winter protection 

 has been removed from the tulip beds, it 

 is a good plan to plant a groundwork of 

 arabis, violas, pansies, silene, myositis, 

 double daisies or some other sjiring 

 flower through the beds. This heliis to 

 cover the earth and, when the color-: are 

 rightly used, throws the tulip; in 

 stronger relief, as the tulips fade. The 



Tulips Rose Luisante and La Reine in a Rochester Park. 



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