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The Weekly Florists^ Review* 



OCTOBEB 27, 1910. 



Bed of the Late-flowering White Tulip White Swan. 



of Vermilion Brilliant and an edging of 

 L'ImmacuIee or Queen Victoria. The 

 width of the bands would depend en- 

 tirely on the diameter of the bed. The 

 following tulips, if bedded together, 

 will make pleasing combinations: Yel- 

 low Pottebakker and Thomas Moore; 

 White Pottebakker and Chrysolora; 

 Cottage Maid and Queen Victoria; 

 Chrysolora and Dussart; Keizerskroon 

 bordered with Queen Victoria; Couleur 

 Cardinal and white Joost von Vondel; 

 White Pottebakker, Ophir d 'Or and 

 Vermilion Brilliant. 



Late Tulips. 



Coming to the late tulips, we have 

 the finest section of all. The prices on 

 the majority of these are lower than 

 ever, and this should tempt more to 

 plant them. These late varieties have 

 much longer and stronger stems than 

 the earlier, and are not yet appreciated 

 at their true worth. Not only are they 

 valuable for bedding, but for clumps 

 or herbaceous borders, or in rows or 

 beds for cutting they will be found 

 valuable. In some seasons they prove 

 useful as late as Memorial day in the 

 colder states. A few varieties of much 

 value are: Bouton d'Or, yellow; Ges- 

 neriana major, scarlet; Gesneriana lu- 

 tea, yellow; Isabella (Shandon Bells), 

 rosy pink; Parisian Yellow, late yellow; 

 Inglescombe Pink, salmon pink; Picotee, 

 white, penciled cerise; Golden Crown, 

 yellow, edged red; La Candeur, pure 

 white; La Merveille, salmon rose, shad- 

 ed orange; retroflexa, deep yellow; In- 

 glescombe, scarlet; Mrs. Moon, canary 

 yellow. 



The beautiful and stately Darwins 

 should not be omitted. They are the 

 strongest and most generally satisfac- 

 tory of all tulips, and in beds of one 

 color make glorious effects. A few fine 

 varieties, which have proved to be reli- 

 able, are: Margaret (Gretchen), blush 

 rose; Mme. Krelage, rosy pink; Pride 

 of Haarlem, salmon rose, shaded scar- 

 let; King Harold, ruby crimson; White 

 Queen, nearly pure white; Farncombe 

 Sanders, rich crimson; Clara Butt, sal- 

 mon pink; Loveliness, rosy carmine; 

 Glow, rich vermilion; Kate Greenaway, 

 white, tinged lavender; Gustave Dore, 

 bright rose. One great point about the 

 Dafwin and most of the other late tulips 

 is that they do not run out in one sea- 

 son. If planted in clumps or masses in 

 borders and left undisturbed, they will 

 be better the second and third than the 

 first year, if given an annual top-dress- 

 ing of rotted manure. 



Carpeting the Beds. 



Tulip beds look much better if car- 

 peted in spring with some early flower- 

 ing, low-growing plants, such as pan- 

 sies, violas, daisies and forget-me-nots. 

 Mixed colors should never be used and 

 care must be taken not to have the 

 colors of the bulbs and carpeting plants 

 clash. Blue myosotis makes an excel- 

 lent ground cover below white or yel- 

 low, but it is otherwise with pink, scar- 

 let or rose. In the case of the latter, 

 white daisies, violas or pansies, or 

 yellow violas will be in good taste. 

 Nothing could look much worse than 

 dark blue pansies below Couleur Car- 

 dinal tulips, or red daisies under Keizers- 

 kroon or Proserpine. Not only tulip 

 beds, but those filled with hyacinths 

 and narcissi are much improved by hav- 

 ing the soil covered by some neat low- 

 growing, flowering plants. 



Hyacinth Beds. 



Hyacinths are not as popular for 

 bedding purposes as they once were, but 

 great efforts are being made by the Hol- 

 land grower to re-popularize them and 

 beds closely planted have been made 

 leading features at bulb expositions 

 there in the last two seasons. * As a 

 general rule, second sized bulbs are used 

 for bedding and give satisfactory re- 

 sults. A circular bed six feet in diam- 

 eter will hold 110 to 120 bulbs and the 



singles are much to be preferred to the 

 doubles. While mixtures of one shade 

 of color make good beds, for the most 

 ])Ieasing results named sorts must be 

 used. A few reliable sorts are: White 

 or slightly tinted, La Grandesse, Mme. 

 Van der Hoop, Grandeur a Merveille, 

 alba superbissima; red, Koi des Beiges. 

 General Pelissier; rose and pink, Ger 

 trude, Charles Dickens, gigantea; blue 

 and lavender. Grand Maitre, Queen of 

 the Blues, King of the Blues, Czar 

 Peter. 



In planting hyacinth beds, blue and 

 white, and pink and white make for 

 harmony; blue and pink for discord. As 

 with tulips, beds of a single named 

 variety are the most telling and pleas 

 ing. Mixed beds are far from satis 

 factory, the colors clashing badly. 



Beds of Narcissi. 



Narcissi are not as much seen in beds 

 as their beauty and merits warrant, but 

 it is pleasing to see the big advance 

 they are making in popular favor. 

 Naturalized, they are at their best, but 

 a number of varieties are so inexpen- 

 sive and excellent for bedding and 

 withal so graceful that the wonder is 

 they are not more used in this way. 

 No matter how narcissi are mixed, their 

 colors do not clash, all being white or 

 of varying shades of yellow, some hav 

 ing cups margined with scarlet. Unlike 



Narcissus J. B. M. Camm. 



