360 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
well for Tulips. For 
permanent planting I 
think their use as a 
border—three deep, 
for beds of hardy 
Perennials gives most 
satisfactory results 
as they require the 
minimum of care 
and yield the maxi- 
mum results and 
brighten up the beds 
at a time when the 
Perennials are just 
getting ready to 
show what they can 
do. The. Bulbs 
should be set about 
pei nente ts six inches apart each 
A Narcissus border way and about once 
and a half their depth below the top of the soil—that is 
there should be that depth of soil above the top of the Bulb. 
This is an excellent rule to follow in the planting of any 
Bulbs about which there is doubt. In planting in solid beds 
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For the garden of ample proportions late flowering Tulips may be planted amid early flowering 
Perennials, which will provide an admirable succession of bloom 
October, 1912 
where uniformity of planting is essential, it will be found a 
good plan to remove a couple of inches of the top soil, will 
enrich the bottom soil with o/d manure or bone meal well 
worked in, cover this with an inch of sharp sand and mark 
off on this either circles or straight lines—the last is more 
practical and the resulting planting will be in circle and 
place a Tulip at the intersection of each cross lines. Cover 
these with an inch of soil and then, before finishing the coy- 
ering, while yet the tips of the Bulbs are visible, fill in the 
intervening spaces with Crocus or Scillas. These will 
bloom a couple of weeks before the Tulips and make a 
lovely bed, or alternate the white Crocus and blue Scillas 
and see how charming they are. 
In selecting Tulips for solid bed, careful attention should 
be given to harmonious arrangement of color, to the height 
of the flowers and the season of bloom. Most catalogues 
now give the season of bloom, height, and indicate such 
varieties as are especially suited for bedding. It goes with- 
out saying that yellow and red is not a happy combination, 
though it seems to appeal to some people, but white may 
always be combined with any of the other colors and adds 
brilliancy to the display. The following list of desirable 
varieties which bloom at the same time and are of uniform 
height will be of assistance to many: White: Duc Von Thol, 
L’Immacule, L’Reine; Yellow: Mon 
Tresor; Scarlet: Vermilion Brilliant, 
and Duc Von Thol. The white and 
the red Duc Von Thol varieties reach 
a height of eight inches and should be 
used for edging the beds of the other 
varieties named above as they are 
ten-inch plants. 
The following are medium early 
Tulips recommended: White: Joost 
Van Vondel, White Hawk, Potte- 
bakker, Cottage Maid (suffused 
pink); and Princess Marianne 
(shaded rose) ; blush pink and white: 
Queen of the Netherlands. Pink: 
Pink Beauty, Rose Grisdelin; and 
Pink Beauty; Rose: Proserpine, and 
Rose Luisante. Scarlet: Sir Thomas 
Lipton, Belle Alliance, Pottebakker 
Scarlet, Cramoise Brilliant, Crimson 
King, Prince of Austria (orange 
tinge); and Duchesse de Parma 
(bordered orange). Red: Potte- 
bakker Scarlet. Yellow: Golden 
Queen, Chrysolora, Pottebakker Yei- 
low, and Yellow Prince. These reach 
from ten to twelve inches in height 
except the Rose Grisdelin, which is 
eight inches in height. This last is 
fine for borders. 
Following these in season there 
are a few such late blooming Tulips 
as the Couleur Cardinal (Cardinal) 
reaching a height of ten inches, and 
Prince of Austria and Thomas More, 
both  orange-scarlet twelve-inch 
plants. ‘Then there are the various 
Bybloomers—Bizarres, Gesnerianas, 
and tall-growing Tulips. These do 
best, I think, in clumps and among 
shrubbery where there is some 
foundation to cover a somewhat 
lanky growth. The low-growing 
Deutzia Gracilis, Anthony Waterer 
Spirea and the like, are good fore- 
grounds for these sorts or they may be 
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