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BULLETIX 1082, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGPJCULTUEE. 



RESULTS m TERMS OF ACRE YIELDS OF MATLTIE BLT.BS. 



It should be noted that the experimental acre at Bellingham, 

 Wash., is shorter than it would be in commercial plantings on the 

 right kind of soil. For this reason the results are conservative. The 

 lands are approximately 400 feet long. The actual planted area on 

 the acre consists of two plats varying from 42 to 4.5 feet wide and 380 

 feet long, the remainder of the acre being occupied by ditches, road- 

 ways, fence rows 12 feet inside of the line, etc. There are therefore on 

 an acre 190 beds or 95 beds in each plat, each bed with its attendant 

 path being 4 feet wide and extending across the plat. 



Table 7 gives an acre-performance turn-off for two years. Records 

 of bulbs turned off relate to merchantable stocks except where the 

 contrary is noted. In all cases the turn-off was picked out of the 

 stock at cleaning time by hand, and no sizing was done on it. 



Table 7. 



-Plantings and yields of vxerchantabh tulips on 1 acre at Bellingham, Wash., 

 in 1919 and 1920. 



Xame of varietv. 



Season of 1919: 



Artus 



Bacchus 



Bakhuis 



Bizard Verdikt 



Bnitus 



Cardinal 's Hat 



Chrysolora 



Cottage Maid 



Couleur Cardinal 



Couleur Cramoia 



Crimson King 



Duchess de Parma 



Duchess of Austria 



Due van Thol 



Dusart 



Joost van den Vondel 



Keizerkroon 



King of the Yellows 



Lac van Rhijn 



La Retne 



L 'Immaculee 



McKinlev 



Men Tr&or 



Ophird'Or 



Pottebakker 



Prince of Austria 



Princess Marianne 



Proserpine 



Rosamimdi Huykman . . . 



Rose Aplatie 



Rose Gris de Lin 



Thomas Moore (PL X\"I, 



Flg.3) 



Titian 



VanBerfJiem 



Van der Xeer 



Van Gooyen 



VermUion BriUiant 



Bulbs of 

 all sizes 

 planted 



in the 

 previous 



year. 



Bidbs 

 marketed, 



89, 198 

 631 



23,300 



64 





4,174 



67 



800 



78, 694 



4S8 



22,000 



5,156 

 7,593 

 11,538 

 10,780 

 9,657 

 229 



1,800 

 3,694 

 2,100 

 1,300 

 2,600 



300 





209 





438 





9,726 

 1,359 



2,400 



3,983 

 5,654 

 4,254 

 19,348 



16, 878 



las 



400 

 1,700 



400 

 6,400 

 2, .500 



1,080 





9,002 



8,959 



124 



4,200 

 2,800 



955 





76 





2,132 



27,467 

 758 



400 

 6,000 



158 





37 





130 





877 





Name of variety. 



Bulbs of 

 aU sizes 

 planted 



in the 

 previous 



year. 



Bulbs 



marketed. 



Season of 1919 — Continued. 



White Swan 



Yellow Prince (PI. XA'I, 

 Fig.l) 



Total 



Season of 1920: 



Acuminata 



Admiral Piet Hein 



Advance 



AMtz 



Allard Pierson 



Andre Doria 



Anton E oozen 



Apollo , 



Arentine 



Artus a , 



Auber 



Aurora , 



Aximensis , 



Bacchus 



Baronne de la Tonnaye. . 



Belle Alliance 



BUlietiana 



BLzard Verdikt 



Boule de Xeige , 



Bridesmaid & 



Brutus , 



Caledonia 



CaUiope 



Cardinal's Hat a 



Carina ta Rubra 



Carl Becker 



Chrvsolora 



OaraButt b 



Columbus 



Cottage Maid 



Couleur Cardinal 



Couleur Cramoisi 



2,429 

 5,188 



339,983 



84 



563 



147 



1,176 



784 



1,134 



1,061 



63 



1,310 



45,124 



756 



196 



1,099 



457 



1,624 



1,680 



994 



3,663 



504 



2,284 



49 



1,071 



1,127 



59, 619 



973 



1,029 



336 



19,166 



448 



3,225 



3,694 



8,491 



2,200 



86,994 



600 



450 

 22,800 



500 



900 

 450 

 500 



1,450 

 300 



1,600 



500 



50,000 

 400 

 500 



3,500 



" In Artus, Cardinal's Hat, and Thomas Moore, an eflort was made to turn off every bulb that would 

 flower. The yield is, therefore, abno rmall y high. To arrive at the merchantable stocks in these varieties ' 

 about 60 per cent must be deducted. 



* In Clara Butt, The Sultan, and Bridesmaid, small flowering bulbs were also Included. A deduetio; 

 here of 25 per cent wiU leave about the proper number of merchantable bulbs. 



