6 BrLLETIX 1082, U. S. DEPA^TMEXT OF AGEICULTURE. 



centimeter sieve are planted 21 to the row, and the 5-centinieter 

 bulbs are planted 35 to the row. All bulbs which pass a 5-centimeter 

 sieve are strewn along, about 50 to the row. The fourteens, twenty- 

 ones, and thirty-fives are planted in 7 clusters of 2, 3, and 5, respec- 

 tively. 



THE PLA>rnNG KECOKD. 



The record made at planting time furnishes the basis for all com- 

 putations on the grower's inventory. In bulb culture the grower is 

 constantly dealing in large numbers. At present we are putting 

 little short of 350,000 bulbs on an acre. It is desirable to have a 

 reasonably accurate estimate of these without the labor of actually 

 counting them. This is accompHshed by getting a count of the 

 number of rows of each size planted. To accomplish this, one of the 

 boys who sets bulbs keeps the tally and when a change of size is 

 made calls the number of rows of each size planted to the foreman of 

 the planting crew, who jots down the number in the proper space 

 in a notebook previously ruled. The form of this record is shown in 



Table 1. 



Table 1. — Form of the planting record. 





Name of variety. 



Number of rows planted of each size. 



Inven- 

 tory No. 



11 to 

 row, 

 above 

 10 cm. 



14 to 

 row, 

 size 

 8 cm. 



21 to 

 row, 

 size 

 7 em. 



35 to 

 row, 

 size 

 5 cm. 



50 to 

 row, 

 size 

 under 

 5 cm. 



479 



Artus 



75 











490 



Couleur Cramoisi 





162 



82 



86 





493 i Duchess de Parma 



151 



64 



23 



32 





327 Faust. 



5 



13 



8 



8 



12 



334 General Kohler 



29 



10 



7 



4 



5 



231 Jassi Prince William 



19 



8 



6 



4 



2 



617 Eaufmanniana 





2 



1 



3 





526 1 McKinley 



327 



184 



102 



90 



104 



410 1 Professor Trelease 



22 











418 1 Rev. E. Ewhanh 



45 



IS 



10 



4 



•5 



538 1 White Swan 



163 



62 



109 



64 



9.: 



1 





! 







Adding the horizontal column gives the total number of rows 

 planted to any one variety. This can also be obtained by multi 

 plying the number of running feet of a 3-foot bed by 2, since the row- 

 are 6 inches apart. To arrive at the number of bulbs of any siz« 

 planted, the figure representing the number of rows must be multi 



