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BULBS FOR AUTUMN. PLAMTIIMG 





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Autumn Planting. 



BULBS, as popularly understood, is a term designating a 

 class of flowering and ornamental -leaved plants in 

 their dormant condition, the flowers, foliage and roots having 

 completed their growth, ripened off and died away, leaving 

 a fleshy, bulbous root, tuber, corm, rhizome or pip, as the 

 various types of bulbs are botanically named, but in all of 

 which there were formed, after flowering and before maturity, 

 new sets of flowers, leaves, etc., which are protected and 

 sustained within the succulent bulb for the next growing and 

 flowering period. It is during this dormant state of rest, 

 lasting, approximately, for from three to six months, that 



A "FLAT" OF FORCED TULIPS, 



bulbs are taken out of the ground — sold, shipped and re- 

 planted, like so many potatoes — after which, conditions being 

 congenial, the incipient plant and flowers develop with as 

 much perfection as if the bulb had remained in its original 

 environment. 



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 ingrowing 

 bulbous plants ; they comprise such an endless variety in habit, 

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

 many of them flower equally well under either garden or house 

 culture. Among other merits of bulbs is the certainty and per- 

 fection 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. They 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 continuous succession of bloom. There 

 is a great variety of kinds of bulbs to select 

 from for this purpose, notably : Astilbe, 

 *Achimenes, Allium, Amaryllis, Anemone, 

 Arum, Babiana, *Begonia, Brodia?a, Cal- 

 las, Calochortus, Chionodoxa, Crocus, 

 *Crinum, Fritillaria, *Gesneria, *Gloxinia, 

 Hyacinths, Iris, Ixia, Jonquil, Lachenalia, 

 Leucojum, Lilium, Lily of the Valley, 

 *L,ycoris, *Nerine, *Na?gelia, Narcissus, 

 Ornithogalum, Oxalis, *Pancratium, Ra- 

 nunculus, Scilla, Sparaxis,Triteleia, Tro- 

 " paeolum, Tulips (Early), Tydaea, *Vallota, 

 Zephyranthes. 



Those marked * 'flower during the summer. 



For Geometrical or "Design" Bedding. 



— The bulbs best adapted are Dutch Hya- 

 cinths and Tulips, and while the dainty 

 blendings and variegations of colors of 

 many varieties of these are very beautiful, 

 yet in this style of bedding their individu- 

 alities are lost and the effect is apt to be a 

 jumble. Therefore, 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. 



REMEMBER: I m Vtt&&S^£3Zgl } YOU MUST PLANT BULBS THIS FALL! 



