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The bulbs should be separated into four or five sizes before plant- 

 ing. In spring plantings of the seedling bulbs out of the house, two 

 sizes will probably be sufficient ; for in this case the bulbs will be large, 

 with very little, if any, propagation. They will be simply the large 

 seedling bulbs. Assuming that the rows are uniformly 6 to 8 inches 

 apart, the larger of these sizes can be planted about seven to the row 

 and the smaller nine to the row. They should be uniformly spaced 

 and set up. After the seedlings have been grown outside for a year, 

 however, there will be a large propagation of bulblets, and conse- 

 quently it will be better to make four or five sizes. 



Fig. 8. — Bulbs bciny planted in a Uuteh bed. 



In starting the planting on the bed plan, it is necessary to line out 

 the beds carefully with taut lines, marked off by running a spade 

 down 2 or 3 inches along the line and scraping the soil toward the 

 center of the bed from either side. The soil is then thrown out of the 

 first bed to a depth of about 4 inches and the bottom raked to a level. 

 The bulbs are then set and spaced, as already described. The soil 

 from the opening of the second bed is used to cover the bulbs in the 

 first, and so on to the end of the plat. Figure 8 shows this method 

 of planting the narcissus on Puget Sound and illustrates the opera- 

 tion very well. 



After the first year there will be more than two sizes, as there will 

 be plenty of stem bulblets at the next digging. It will then be neces- 

 sary to plant a larger number to the row. One may have 14 and 21 



