September : Second Week 



FALL BULBS: PLAN NOW TO SECURE A LONG 

 SEASON OF BLOOM NEXT SPRING; TYPES 

 AND VARIETIES 



Bulbs to plant this fall, which will bloom next spring, 

 require very small outlay. A few dollars will buy 200 or 

 300 bulbs of the best-named sorts, and most of these wiU 

 last, or self-propagate, for many years. They are easier 

 to plant than either seeds or growing plants, and if a few 

 simple precautions are followed success is almost certaiu. 



We hear a good deal these days about succession crops — 

 follow-up crops in the vegetable garden and continuity 

 of bloom in the flower garden. Very little attention, how- 

 ever, has been paid to obtaining a succession of bloom in the 

 bulb garden. The spring-blooming bulbs are popular, but 

 they would be much more so if more people realized that 

 their season can, by proper selection, be extended from very 

 early in the spring — ^much earher than any of the perennials 

 begin to bloom or than is safe to set out plants in flower from 

 indoors — all through the spring and into early simmier. In 

 fact, their season may be extended practically throughout 

 the summer if one includes the hardy HHes; but these are 

 not, of course, covered in the term "spring-flowering" 

 bulbs, and, moreover, most of them require treatment rather 

 different from the latter. In describing how proper selection 

 may prolong the flowering season in the bulb garden, I have 

 given more consideration to the three most popular and 

 important of the spring-blooming bulbs — tulips, narcissi 

 and hyacinths. 



Aside from the fact that, as ordinarily planted, the 

 flowering season of the spring bulbs is unfortunately short, 

 almost every point that one can think of is in their favor; 

 especially so for the use of the person whose garden time as 



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