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What is a lair rental jor a given 

 property? A sk the Readers' Service 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



October, 1909 



THERE'S 

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Do you realize 

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 are constantly 

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 Wasting good fuel is wasting money. 



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Plant This Lily Before October 



THE only hardy white lily that is reasonably 

 cheap and fairly sure of growing is the 

 Madonna or Annunciation lily {Lilium candidum) 

 of which a beautiful picture is here given. Notice 

 how prettily the drops of water stand upon the 

 lily bells. 



This lily blooms in Tune and is the earliest of the 

 lilies that are commonly seen in gardens. It must 



The finest of all hardy white lilies must be plant- 

 ed not later than September — the madonna lily 

 (Z. candidum) 



also be planted long before the other lilies. August 

 is none too soon if you can get thoroughly ripened 

 bulbs as early as that. But do not plant them a day 

 later than September, for this lily has to make a 

 leaf growth in the fall or else it will not bloom 

 well next year. The nankeen or Isabella lily 

 (L. testaceum or excelsum) has the same 

 peculiarity. 



Connecticut. Henry Maxwell. 



Growing Bulbs in the West 



OUTDOOR bulb culture in the Dakotas, 

 Montana and Northern Minnesota differs 

 in two essentials from bulb growing in the East, 

 and upon the observance of this difference the best 

 results hinge. In the first place, contrary to what 

 one might expect, all bulbs should be planted con- 

 siderably shallower here than in the East; for 

 instance, tulips will do best if covered but an inch 

 and a half. Nor need the largest narcissus be 

 covered with more than two and a half inches of 

 soil. In the second place the bulb bed will require 

 no winter protection or covering of any kind. To 

 cover a bed with manure or any other litter merely 

 holds back the plants and makes them bloom 

 much later. 



My experience with bulbs in this region has 

 demonstrated the foregoing rather forcibly. The 

 Kaiserskroons, which I planted most carefully three 

 inches deep and , covered with a two inch mulch, 

 came up and bloomed nicely, but fully two weeks 

 behind another bed of the same variety which was 

 covered with scarcely an inch of soil and nothing, 

 more, all winter. A large variety 'of narcicuss 

 that were planted to the depth as practised in the 

 East and as usually advised in the catalogues came 

 up as late as three weeks after bulbs planted much 

 shallower. Likewise with tulips, such as. Artus 

 and Chrysolora. 



Bulbs in these parts need no protection against 

 alternate thawings and freezings during the winter, 

 for when the ground freezes up in fall it remains so 

 until the frost goes out in spring. With the frost 



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DEERFIELD ILLINOIS 



