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TULIP TIME IN THE GARDEN 



As time goes on the lover and observer of 

 -^ ^ gardening in its many forms cannot but no- 

 tice the great appreciation of interest in spring- 

 flowering bulbs. Among these nothing has sprung 

 more quickly into favor under the public eye than 

 the late tulip. One may consider it as firmly 

 settled in American gardening affections for many 

 years to come. And when ultimately the grower 

 of these beautiful subjects shall have tried all the 

 varieties in our own dealers' lists, all that he may 

 have found in foreign ones — if he then sighs for 

 more tulip worlds to conquer, think of the further 

 joys that shall be his as he realizes that from that 

 point on he is a collector! He finds himself in 

 the happy valley of a general knowledge of the 

 tulip kingdom. He has now and only now quali- 

 fied as one who may climb the pleasant slopes 

 which lead to the knowledge of hybridizing, to 

 that of the rarer varieties of tulip such as the Old 

 English or Florists'. Membership in one or two 

 of the small societies of enthusiasts in special 



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