236 BEDDING PLANTS. 



I wish to say a word before closing about the use of 

 tulips, pansies, and daisies for spring bedding. It is really 

 color-bedding with flowers, rather than leaves, for the leaves 

 at the early season when tulips bloom have hardly yet 

 developed. The contrast of the pansies and daisies set out 

 in the same pattern as that of the succeeding summer bed- 

 ding is attractive and effective, but they are modest in the 

 extreme in the presence of the tulips. 



By employing the red, yellow, and white tulips in the 

 summer-bedding patterns the most splendid effect of clear, 

 pure, glowing color can be obtained. The 

 large round bed at the entrance to Central 

 Park, at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-ninth 

 Street, is thus planted in varying ovals 

 that make broad masses of color, first white, 

 then yellow, and then red next to the green 

 grass. Red color forms a striking and 

 pleasing contrast with the green of the 

 grass, and is therefore generally arranged 

 next to the greensward as shown in the diagram on 

 page 226. 



The effect of tulip and pansy bedding is necessarily 

 somewhat flat and monotonous in contour, but this naturally 

 comes from using flowers, as it were, alone for producing a 

 color-eflEect. In only this way, however, can we secure 

 early spring color-beds, because foliage plants such as 

 cannas, coleuses, etc., cannot generally be planted out with 

 safety in the climate of New York before May 20th. At 

 that time tulips are, as a rule, done flowering, and pansies 

 past their prime. 



NEW SINGLE TULIPS. 



