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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1918 



Lawn Beauty with Economy 

 and Conservation of Labor 



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Cottage Tulips "Breaking" 



TN PAST seasons I have written The 

 Garden Magazine items about my tulip 

 beds, particularly as to the breaking of sup- 

 posed fixed sorts by ones and twos at a time out 

 of the fifties and hundreds I bought from Hol- 

 land. For two years I have inclined to the 

 doctrine that these supposedly broken and 

 fixed sorts in my garden gave variations from 

 injured bulbs scarred in summer digging. I 

 always plant scarred bulbs in the fall if they 

 have not dried to powder during the summer 

 from the effects of the injury. 



In the summer of 1915, rain of seven weeks' 

 duration came on here in June, just after I had 

 got one of six long Tulip borders cleared of 

 ripened bulbs. No weather suitable for dig- 

 ging came until the five remaining beds of 

 bulbs had again sent out roots. They had to 

 be let alone as they stood. Those five beds 

 had a mixture of choice sorts, lates and earlies, 

 precisely like the stock of the one bed which 

 was harvested. They were the bulbs from 

 which I had had such interesting variables in 

 Clara Butt, Sultan, Caledonia, and the like 

 reliable sorts as I wrote in two issues of the 

 magazine. The variables remained, of course, 

 with the other bulbs in the beds. 



This spring the five untouched beds and the 

 one harvested and replanted bloomed side by 

 side under identical weather and soil con- 

 ditions. The untouched beds were a week. 

 earlier in flower, but weakish and poorer in all 

 but two sorts. Many bulbs sent up one great 

 leaf only, resting from flower. Few of the 

 handsome variations bloomed at all here — not 

 as many in all as in the one replanted bed. 

 No new variations appeared. In the har- 

 vested and replanted bed nearly every bulb 

 bloomed; variations previously seen were rep- 

 resented; several fine new variations occurred. 



I am inclined to think that this shows varia- 

 tions a little weaker than the unaltered parent 

 sort, less inclined to flower if the soil is hard or 

 poorly aerated or limed, and favored — if 

 afFected at all? — by digging and long ripening 

 in the summer. Nothing is proved as to new 

 variables coming from slightly scarred bulbs; 

 but beds which had no new scar-patients be- 

 cause not redug in June, 1915, had absolutely 

 no new "breaks" at all in some 50 square 

 yards, as against a fair number for the re- 

 planted 9 or 10 square yards. A sort of drift 

 of probability in favor of the scar theory. I 

 had noticed for three years that a fellow 

 gardener who always threw away her hurt 

 bulbs every June developed no "freak sorts" 

 in her beds from the standard sorts we both 

 grew. 



The hard and rather weedy beds undis- 

 turbed last season brought perfect flowers of 

 Kate Greenaway for the first time, though I 

 had owned the variety for four years. This is 

 a late Tulip, very late, according to cata- 

 logues. It bloomed there this year with 

 Painted Lady (Shandon Bells), and about that 

 size and height, though of weaker pale green 

 stem — not very late, that is to say. Every 

 flower was perfect, pale as an apple blossom, 

 tinted in tiny dots and lines of lavender and 

 pink, with a meek gray centre and delicate 

 edging lines of green. It was better off 

 for being undisturbed, certainly. So was the 

 round golden Tulip, Yellow Gesneriana, 

 which shines out a grand chrome with black- 

 soot anthers; this makes, most years at ordi- 

 nary harvest time, a small flaccid bulb, and 

 flowers weakly and late in my land. Its 

 flowers from the neglected beds were the finest 



(Continued on page 208) 



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