OcTroBER, 1908 
Box of Thomas 
Moore, eighteen inches high 
Single tulips are best for forcing. 
water up to the place where the bottom of 
the bulb rests, place the bulb in the glass and 
set it in a dark room for a couple of weeks 
to root. When the glass is full of roots 
bring it into the air and light. - A continuous 
supply of flowers can be had in this way by 
succession plantings. When the water in the 
glass becomes rank-smelling or sour-looking 
it had better be changed, using water of.about 
the same temperature to refill the glass. 
THE CARDEN: 
The single tulips are the best forcers and 
of these I recommend Belle Alliance and 
Maes as the best scarlets and Yellow Prince 
and Chrysolora in yellows. My one great 
favorite, however, is Proserpine, a beautiful 
satiny pink, and a grand forcer; in fact | 
think it is the best available variety of all 
the tulips. Pink Beauty is also a good pink 
variety. Thomas Moore is a good long 
stemmed variety; the color is mixed but 
orange predominates; the grand form and 
beautiful snow-white color of Joost Van 
Vondel make it the best white, but White 
Hawk is a close second. 
The small flowered Duc Van Tholl type 
can be had in yellow, scarlet, white, pink 
and mixed, and-although you don’t get such 
large flowers, they are good varieties for 
beginners because they are so easily forced. 
In mixed colors the best sorts I know 
are, Von Vondel red and white; Keizers- 
kroon, a beautifully high colored sort, being 
a fiery scarlet with orange yellow border; 
Duchess De Parma is grand in old rose and 
bright satiny pink; and Fabiola is a good 
purple and white variety. 
Double tulips are also admired by many, 
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Double tulips are later than singles but they last 
longer. Alba Roseum 
but they have never appealed to me as 
strongly as the singles; they are a trifle 
later than the singles, and are not so easily 
forced, but if any one desires to try them I 
recommend Alba Maxima as the best white, 
and Couronne D’Or as the best yellow; 
in scarlet Imperator Rubrorum; and for 
pink Murillo. The beautiful orange colored 
Tournesol is the best of all the double sorts, 
however. If you want something really fancy 
although a trifle later than the early Se 
try a few of the Darwins. 
Flower Seeds for Present Sowing —By W. C. McCollom, 2 
SAVE A YEAR’S TIME BY SOWING PERENNIALS IN COLD FRAMES DURING SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER READY 
FOR PLANTING OUT NEXT SPRING, 
ae BE sure, raising plants from seed 
in your own garden is not as easy 
as buying them from the nursery, but to 
most people there is a sense of satisfaction 
Till the boxes with soil and distribute it evenly by 
working with the hands 
Learn to sow seeds direct from the paper packet. 
This avoids loss, and errors in names 
in haying something all one’s own, and in 
raising plants from seed there is a feeling of 
expectancy, which is not cured until the 
plant has matured. And really it is quite 
easy to grow first class plants from seed. 
The reason why ‘failures occur, as they 
often do, is a too slavish following of the so- 
called “cultural directions” printed on the 
showy seed packet. These packages are 
prepared by a printing house, not by a 
gardener, and you will notice that they are 
nearly all the same generalizing type, read- 
ing like this: “Sow in open ground after 
danger from frost is past; for early flowers 
sow inside during March and April.” Iam 
going to tell you of another way of handling 
a whole host of plants, including all of the 
most desirable old favorites. 
There are special advantages in sowing 
perennials in the fall: you avoid some of 
Separ- 
Two or three kinds can be sown in one flat. 
ate them by strips of bamboo 
AND ALSO PROVIDE AN ABUNDANCE OF FLOWERS FOR CUTTING 
the rush of spring work and the results of your 
efforts are had the first season. Although 
cold frames or boxes of some kind are 
Cover light!y by sifting fine soil evenly over the 
surface. Hold the sieve six inches above 
After sowing the seed make the surface firm by 
pressing with a seed board . 
