PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.— BULBS. 



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Bulbous plants are among the most showy and useful of our garden, greenhouse 

 and window garden favorites, and with scarcely any exception are easily managed, 

 sure to bloom and require but little labor and care to enable them to produce their charming flowers. 

 As winter-blooming plants they hold an important place, as there is no period of the year during which 

 flowers are so highly appreciated, and certainly no class of flowering plants afford more pleasure. We 

 offer an almost endless variety of the various beautiful species now grown in enormous quantities, especially for winter and spring decoration. 



OUT-DOOR PLANTING should be done early in the fall to 

 secure healthy, vigorous plants and really fine flowers, though generally 

 speaking, from October to the middle of November is the most desir- 

 able time, as the ground to be used is often not disengaged until after 

 the first frost. 



BEDS AND BORDERS of Hyacinths or Tulips, etc., produce 

 very fine effects by using the cheaper mixed colors, but the most 

 showy and satisfactory effects, are produced by planting separate 

 colors of Tulips, Hyacinths, etc., that grow about the same height 

 and flower at the same time, in lines, each of one color, or in masses or 

 geometrical designs. We offer bulbs for a few designs on pages 7, 14 

 and 15. 



NATURALIZING BULBOUS PLANTS Many of our 

 most beautiful hardy bulbous plants will be found to succeed well, and 

 much enhance the beauty of the lawn, carriage drive, or woodland 

 walk if judiciously planted in groups or masses in prominent positions 

 on grassy slopes on banks under isolated trees, or even under groups of 

 trees. Many of them too, come so early in the season that they per. 

 feet their growth and are ready for their season of rest by the time 

 the trees are in full leaf or the grass ready for the mower. Beautifut 

 as the green grass is, other beauties may be added enhancing its 

 charm, and supplying these wherever and whenever a chance occurs 

 is doing good work. What, for instance, is more beautiful in early 

 spring, when winter has scarcely untied his icy fetters than to find, 

 close by a favorite walk, a carpet of the Winter Aconite with its bright 

 yellow flowers, each in a quaint and pretty setting of green, still 

 further along groups of the lovely blue Scillas, Grape Hyacinths, 

 Glory of the Snow, Crocuses, etc. Snowdrops particularly, when 

 once planted increase freely and cover the ground with a wealth of 

 bloom every spring without further trouble. In many places small 

 groups of Daffodils or Irises will be effective and give greater pleasure 

 than large formal beds would do. Bear in mind that every season 

 adds to their effectiveness and beauty. 



THE OUT-DOOR DISPLAY may be fairly said to commence 

 with March, when, if judiciously planted, the garden is growing 

 bright with Snow-drops, Scillas, Chionodoxas, Crocuses, Daffodils, 

 etc., and during April and well into May the flower-beds are brilliant 



and charming with a wealth of lovely Hyacinths, Tulips. Anemones. 

 Narcissus, etc., and other spring flowers, make up a riisp'ay of floral 

 beauty rarely equalled. 



FORCING BULBS. There is no class of plants that gives the 

 satisfaction and profusion of bloom in ll winter forcing" that bulbs 

 do, and with so little skill and care give such •magnificent results. 

 They occupy no space in the conservatory or window excepting when 

 in the full wealth of bud and bloom, and then the effect of their in- 

 comparable flowers and rich gorgeous colors is matchless. As the 

 proper way to treat them is to pot the bulbs in the autumn, plunge 

 them in cold frames or in the open ground and cover with leaves, tan 

 bark or something similar, and leave them until they become well 

 rooted, which will be in about two month's time, they can then be 

 brought in and the warmth and light of the conservatory or window 

 will " force" them to bloom in two or three week's time. A continu- 

 ous display of bloom may be enjoyed during the entire winter and 

 spring by bringing in a few pots at intervals of two to three weeks. 



THE WINDOW GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE. 



There is no class of plants that is more important or that gives more 

 satisfaction for window garden and greenhouse cultuie than the 

 various species of bulbous plants. They are the most easily grown of 

 all and are sure to bloom abundantly. There is nothing more cheering 

 or pleasant than a few Hyacinths, Tuilps, Freesias, Jonquils or other 

 bulbs displaying their gorgeous colors and delightful fragrance during 

 the dull months of winter. Interesting and beautiful objects for the 

 Window Garden may be produced by planting Hyacinths in glasses 

 Crocuses or Lily of the Valley in pyramidal and various ornamental 

 styles of pots made specially for the purpose and pierced with holes to 

 allow the shoots to escape and the flowers to expand. 



TO THOSE POSSESSING A WARM PIT (and all enthus- 

 i.i-is in tloricul ure should) it is no difficult matter by early planting and 

 forcing a few Van Thol Tulips. Roman and other Hyacinths, Paper- 

 white Narcissus, etc., to have them in bloom by New Year's day, whilst a 

 few successive plantings of these and other choice sorts will ensure a 

 beautiful display throughout winter months. 



