THE BULB GARDEN 



VERY lover of flowers should 

 have a garden of bulbs, for 

 three reasons: First, they 

 bloom so early in the season 

 that one can have flowers at 

 least six weeks longer than 

 it is possible to have them if 

 only perennial and annual plants are depended 

 on. Some bulbs come into bloom as soon as the 

 snow is gone, at the north, to be followed by 

 those of later habit, and a constant succession of 

 bloom can be secured by a judicious selection 

 of varieties, thus completely tiding over the 

 usually flowerless period between the going of 

 winter and the coming of the earlier spring 

 flowers. Second, they require but little care, 

 much less than the ordinary plant. Give them 

 a good soil to grow in, and keep weeds and grass 

 from encroaching on them, and they will ask no 

 other attention from you, except when, because 

 of a multiplication of bulbs, they need to be sepa- 

 rated and reset, which will be about every third 

 year. The work required in doing this is no more 



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