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BULBS FOR AtlT.lJMM_ PLANTirVG ^ 







HENDERSON'S 

 SUPERIOR 



FLOWER BULBS 



FOR FALL 

 PLANTING 



BULBOUS FLOWERING PLANTS (Bulbs) produce remarkably beautiful 

 flowers, unsurpassed in many varieties by any other plants in the floral 

 kingdom, and, besides, many of them are delightfully fragrant. There is a 

 peculiar charm in growing them for they comprise such an endless variety 

 in habit, form, size, color, and are adaptable for so many purposes; many 

 of them flower equally w-ell under either garden or house culture. Among 

 other merits of bulbs is the certainty and perfection with which they bloom 

 and their ease of culture. 



BULBS FOR FLOWERING IN THE HOUSE AND GREENHOUSE.— There 

 is no class of plants that gives more satisfaction for this purpose than bulbous 

 plants (bulbs), and with so little skill gives such magnificent results. The3' 

 are easily managed, and need occupy no space in the window or greenhouse 

 excepting when in bud and bloom. Under suitable treatment they flower 

 with great certainty, and their flowering period may be hastened (forced) or 

 retarded so as to "bring them in" for certain occasions, or to give a con- 

 tinuous succession of bloom. 



HARDY BULBS FOR OPEN-GROUND PLANTING. — A great many kinds of 

 bulbs are hardy enough to withstand our severe Northern winters. Most of 

 the suitable sorts should be planted in the fall, and they will flower the fol- 

 lowing season, commencing in March or earlier with Snowdrops, Chionodoxas, 

 Scillas, Crocus, Aconites, Bulbocodiums, etc., which are followed in April 

 with Hyacinths, Tulips, Daffodils, and hosts of other bulbous beauties. In 

 May appear late Tulips, late Narcissus, Lily of the Valley, Bleeding Hearts, 

 etc. Again, followed in succession until frost, notably with Pa?onias, Iris, 

 Hemerocallis, Lilies, etc. 



FOR GEOMETRICAL OR "DESIGN" BEDDING. — The bulbs best adapted 

 are Dutch Hyacinths and Tulips. In this style of bedding the happiest effects 

 are produced by planting solid bright colors in contrast, and in ordering the 

 varieties it is important to select those that will bloom at the same time and 

 are of proper heights. 



THE FLOWER GARDEN AND HERBACEOUS BORDER are favorite 

 places for growing most hardy bulbs, and here they seem to thrive and give 



the most pleasure. They should be planted here and there in little colonies 

 among the hardy plants and shrubs. From the border one does not hesitate 

 to gather flowers daily for the house, for fear of spoiling the effect, as would 

 be the case from design beds. Furthermore, in an herbaceous border bulbs 

 are not disturbed, the foliage remains uninjured until ripe, thus fulfilling its 

 duty assigned by nature, of recharging the bulb with new flowers for the 

 next season's display. 



BOLD, ISOLATED CLUMPS OF TALL-GROWING BULBOUS PLANTS 

 make a brilliant show planted on the lawn in a position not too prominent 

 nor too near, the object desired being a large mass of one color, in striking 

 contrast to the surrounding green grass and trees. 



BULBS RIGHT IN THE SOD ON THE LAWN present a pleasing picture 

 w-hen in bloom, in the early spring. They should be planted in a "hit-and- 

 miss" fashion, an irregular group in one place, scattered individuals over 

 there, as one would find wild flowers. Of course, on closely clipped lawns, 

 only very early spring-flowering bulbs can be used, those that flower, ripen 

 and die down before it is necessary to use a mower. Then the summer surface 

 on the lawn will be as smooth and green as if no sleeping bulbous beauties 

 were beneath it waiting for their awakening the next spring. The bulbs may 

 be planted with a dibble when the sod is moist and soft after fall rains. But 

 it is better to cut the sod, turn it back, plant the bulbs and press the soj in 

 place. 



" NATURALIZING " HARDY BULBS in semi-wild, outlying grounds is a 

 happy style of simulating nature. Such bulbs should be used as can be planted 

 in quantity, from a dozen to a hundred of a kind in a patch. Fortunately, 

 among bulbous plants we have many. that are hardy, thrive and increase in 

 such rough, neglected, picturesque places even better than in the prim garden. 



COnPLETE CULTURAL INSTRUCTIONS are given in the n«w edition of 



"HENDERSON'S BULB CULTURE." 



Price. 50c, or given free with an order of $3.00 or over. 



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