THE BULB GARDEN 



done spread blankets or carpeting over the beds. 

 Keep them from resting on the tender growth of 

 the plants by driving pegs into the soil a short 

 distance apart, all over the bed. The young 

 plants may not be killed by quite a severe freeze, 

 but they will be injured by it, and injury of any 

 kind should be guarded against at this season, 

 if you want fine flowers. 



Holland Hyacinths should receive first consid- 

 eration, because they are less likely to disappoint 

 than any other hardy bulb. There are single and 

 double kinds, both desirable. Personally I pre- 

 fer the single sorts, as they are less prim and 

 formal than the double varieties, whose flowers 

 are so thickly set along the stalk that individual- 

 ity of bloom is almost wholly lost sight of. They 

 are, in this respect, like the double Geraniums 

 we use in summer bedding, whose trusses of 

 bloom resemble a ball of color more than any- 

 thing else, at a little distance, the suggestion 

 of individual bloom being so slight that it seldom 

 receives consideration. However, they do good 

 service where color-efF ects are considered of more 

 importance than anything else. Single Hya- 

 cinths have their flowers more loosely arranged 

 along the stalk, and are therefore more graceful 

 than the double varieties, and their colors are 



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