October, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



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crease, and as the bulbs should not be dis- 

 turbed for several years this amount of room 

 is necessary. 



The list of fine lilies is so large that one 

 hesitates to advise. One of the loveliest and 

 most easily grown is the old white garden lily 

 — candidum or Lily of the Annunciation. 

 This lily, unlike most others, calls for shallow 

 planting, setting the tip but little below the 

 surface of the soil, but where it will be some- 

 what protected by other growing plants or 

 shrubbery as paeonies. Good drainage is 

 essential to all bulbs, especially lilies, and in 

 planting a situation where there is good 

 natural drainage should be selected, or if 

 lacking, the earth should be excavated eigh- 

 teen inches or two feet, and several inches of 

 gravel and broken stone filled in and the 

 earth replaced, and if this is poor the surface 

 soil only should be retained and good earth 

 from the compost heap or leaf mold added. 

 Under each bulb should be placed a little 

 sharp white sand and a pad of sphagnum moss 

 and the bulb covered with the sand ; this in- 

 sures individual drainage for each bulb. 



The Japanese lilies — -roseum, rubrum and 

 album — are all exquisite, and as easily grown 

 as candidum and the bulbs increase quite 

 rapidly. Auratum, that queen of lilies, is as 

 easily grown as any of the above if planted 

 carefully in the fall, and if the precaution is 

 taken to secure the large size bulbs, not the 

 one or two-year pigmies so often sent out as 

 first-class bulbs. These should be well sup- 

 plied with drainage material and planted 

 seven or eight inches deep. But to go into 

 the many varieties of lilies is a subject by itself 

 and not for a general article on bulbs. 



Where tulips are to be grown in beds, which 

 are to be used for other plants later on, it will 

 be well to select the early blooming sorts, and 

 those which are of the same height. But 

 where the bulbs are to remain in the beds per- 

 manently the later blooming May sorts may 

 be selected. Both double and single sorts are 

 beautiful, and I am of the impression that 

 one can not have too many of them. C. M. 

 Powell, in his delightful book "A Country 

 Home," advocates their planting among the 

 strawberries, and one can imagine the flaunt- 

 ing blossoms bending above a carpet of snowy 

 strawberry blossoms and green leaves. 



Where the tulips are to be taken up and 

 replanted in the fall it will be far less labor 

 to plant the mixed bulbs, and as these may be 

 had more cheeply than the named sorts, one 

 may, therefore, have more of them. Only the 

 choicest mixed should be selected, and one 

 should have as many single as double ones, 

 but plant the two kinds separate. Personally, 

 I like tulips as borders to other beds more than 

 for solid beds; here they may be left in the 

 ground from year to year, and will increase 

 rapidly. It may not be generally known that 

 many tulips self-seed if allowed to ripen their 

 seed, and will be found coming up in all sorts 

 of unexpected places, but generally speaking 

 I do not know that the formation of seed is 

 good for the bulbs and, possibly, causes them 

 to run out sooner. Tulips should be planted 

 five inches apart and four inches deep, and if 

 treated like a lily bulb with sand beneath, 

 will be all the better for it. Manure is nec- 

 essary for fine flowers, but should not come 

 in immediate contact with the bulb. A good 

 way to plant tulips or other bulbs is to throw 

 out the earth for the width of the border and 

 the depth of the planting, making the bottom 

 of this excavated place as level as possible, 

 and lay an inch of sand over it. On this the 

 bulbs may be set an equal distance apart and 

 then filled in above them. In this way they 

 will come up of uniform height. 



There are several very desirable forms of 

 tulips aside from the single and double. One 



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