October, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



Tulips and hyacinths are lifted when dor- 

 mant, which is as soon as the foliage has 

 ripened and roots decayed, after this the bulbs 

 remain in a semi-dormant condition, resting, 

 and may be moved at any time before they 

 begin growth in the fall. Hyacinths also 

 require this period of rest, which may as well 

 be in paper bags in a cool situation as in the 

 ground. 



Such lilies as Candidums are dormant for 

 a short time only, starting into growth early 

 in September and should be lifted, for best 

 results, in August, but most of the Japanese 

 lilies mature later and many of them do not 

 reach this country until late in November, or 

 even December. It is, therefore, well to have 

 the beds all prepared beforehand that the 

 planting may be done as soon as they arrive. 

 They may be planted any time when the 

 ground may be worked, or when it is not 

 frozen more than a few inches below the sur- 

 face. 



Tulips, crocus and hyacinths, which are 

 planted much nearer the surface, should be 

 planted as early in the fall as procurable, 

 that they may make some root growth before 

 cold weather sets in, as much of the beauty 

 of the blooms depends upon this. 



Any good garden soil will grow any sort 

 of bulbs successfully, but a clay soil is not 

 desirable, and for lilies a proportion of leaf 

 mold is desirable. 



Gardens infested with moles are not satis- 

 factory places for the growing of bulbs, and 

 unless they may be driven away or destroyed 

 other plants less affected by this rodent should 

 be grown. For several years I have tried 

 the experiment of growing moles and tulips 

 in the same garden, and so far must confess 

 myself vanquished. Three years ago a bed 

 on the lawn filled with several hundred choice 

 named tulips was entirely destroyed — entirely, 

 I say — but in digging up the bed for the 

 cannas which occupied it during summer, I 

 found three bulbs which had dropped to the 

 bottom of the runs they had made, and were 

 too deeply buried to come up. Last year 

 some long borders of double tulips were nearly 

 destroyed, only an occasional tulip appearing 

 in the spring. The single borders fared some- 

 what better for some reason, but even here 

 much destruction was wrought, some of the 

 bulbs coming up in the center of beds several 

 feet away and in the middle of the paths, 

 where they had been carried by the moles. 

 Traps have quite failed to catch them, and 

 doping the soil with kerosene, poisoned ap- 

 ples and the like have, so far, had no effect. 

 I am inclined to think that a concrete fosse 

 will be the only certain way of barring them 

 from my garden, and unless that were capped 

 with a curb I am not sure of the efficacy of 

 that even. 



One mole trapped in the fall is worth 

 several trapped in the spring after they have 

 begun to breed. It is curious that while the 

 county authorities offer bounties for moles, 

 no such bounty is offered or allowed by the 

 city, though the damage done by them inside 

 the city limits is far greater than in the out- 

 lying farming lands. A few moles on a lawn 

 will in a week's time cause many, many dol- 

 lars' worth of damage, often making it nec- 

 essary to tear up and regrade a considerable 

 portion of the lawn. 



But to return to our planting. Most bulbs 

 do better in full sunshine, but as they bloom 

 at a time of the year when there is little, if 

 any, foliage on the trees, most positions will 

 give sufficient light. The depth at which vari- 

 ous bulbs should be planted and the distance 

 apart will depend somewhat upon the size 

 of the bulbs, but most lilies may safely be 

 set five inches deep, that is, the tip of the bulbs 

 that far below the surface of the ground and 

 't toot at least apart. This gives room for in- 



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