The simplest way to plant bulbs in grass. 
Make a dibble by pointing a piece of broom-handle and pound it in about four inches. 
Then put in good 
soil and the bulb. Then smooth over with back of rake so that dirt does not show. All you need in your wheelbarrow is mallet, dibble, rake, bag ort bulbs, 
box of good soil, and burlap to protect the knees 
How We Can Beat the World at Wild Gardening—By T. McAdam, 
New 
THE UNRIVALED OPPORTUNITY WE HAVE OF TRANSFORMING WOODLANDS, MEADOWS AND ORCHARDS INTO VISIONS 
OF PERENNIAL BEAUTY BY PLANTING CHEAP, HARDY BULBS THAT NEED PRACTICALLY NO CARE AFTER PLANTING 
BOR once I want to give myself the pleas- 
ure of writing solely for wealthy Amer- 
icans who have country places. You gentle- 
men have an unrivaled opportunity right 
now. Youcan get results more splendid than 
any you have ever dreamed of and this too in 
less time and at less cost than by any other 
style of gardening. All you have to do is 
to plant this fall certain hardy bulbs that 
will require practically no care after planting. 
For, if you plant them in woods, meadows 
or sodded orchards they will multiply until 
you have bluebells by the acre, daffodils by 
the million, and other wild flower pictures 
on a gigantic scale such as Nature used to 
paint before man spoiled the landscape. 
In summer you can take off a crop of hay 
from these places without harming the flowers 
in the least, for by June the bulbs will have 
ripened and their leaves will have disap- 
peared until the following spring. 
“But,” you may exclaim, “isn’t this 
just what English country gentlemen do to 
perfection? How and why can we excel 
them in wild gardening?” 
In the first place we have vastly more 
land; our great estates, as a rule, are larger 
than theirs; we have a bigger canvas to 
paint on. Second, we have a greater variety 
of plants suitable for this specific purpose. 
True, we cannot fill our woods with prim- 
roses, but they can never fill theirs with 
trilliums, adder’s tongues and_bloodroot. 
For every flower they can naturalize by the 
acre I will undertake to name two of eqn 
merit that we can grow. 
The showiest spring wild flower of the American woods, 7?illiuvm grundiforum. We can always beat the 
English on this. 
We should buy nursery grown bulbs and fill our woodlands 
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Moreover, you can soon convince yourself 
that bulbs suitable for wild gardening will - 
give you permanent results more quickly 
and cheaply than any other style of gardening. 
Annuals, even if they self-sow, are too 
inconstant and cost more to maintain. 
Shrubs and vines will not attain luxuriance 
before the third year. Trees involve a still 
longer wait. Perennials cost considerably 
more and most of the summer and autumn- 
bloomers are debarred because they will not 
flower freely in woods after the trees leaf out, 
or they interfere with the hay crop in 
meadows. Clearly bulbs are the best for 
both situations. You plant them now and 
they bloom next spring; the kinds I mention 
are reasonably permanent; and most of them 
cost a cent and a half each or less when 
bought by the thousand. 
Whether the results are new and beauti- 
ful you can perhaps judge from the picture 
on page 174. But if you have any doubt 
on this point you can have a private view of 
the best collection of wild gardening photo- 
graphs in America. I have portraits and 
mass pictures of practically every flower here 
recommended and I will gladly show them 
to anyone who contemplates planting a 
thousand or more bulbs this fall, provided he 
will write for an appointment in New York. 
I will even loan some of these pictures to 
readers of THE GARDEN MAGAZINE in any 
part of the country. I make this unusual 
offer because, next to the campaign for winter 
comfort and beauty, I believe this wild 
gardening movement offers better results for 
American gardening than any other horti- 
cultural proposition I know. 
WHICH ARE BEST, AND WHY 
About three hundred kinds of bulbs are 
recommended by dealers and writers as 
suitable for wild gardening, but at the present 
