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THE FLORAL fVORLD 



green and filled them half full of the 

 s-ame rich soil and slipped the loose 

 bottoms of the original cans out and 

 set them on this new soil, without dis- 

 turbing the plants in the least. They 

 responded with a bound, so to speaR, 

 and rich clusters of twelve large pur- 

 ple flowers on each vine was* the result 

 of the experiment. In the late fall I 

 will set the cans in a cool cellar for an 

 early start next spring. 

 New York. 



A BULB BED. 



Along the foundation, at each side 

 of our house, we have a long, narrow 

 bed, slightly elevated. The soil is or- 

 dinarily good garden soil, mixed with 

 sand. In it we grow white and pink 

 tulips and light blue single hyacinths, 

 with a border of white crocus. The 

 tulips, cottage maid, rose luisante, 

 I'immaculee, murillo and salvator rose, 

 are the prettiest in this dainty be'd. 

 For the summer it was planted with 

 mixed dianthus. 



Both for beauty and as a mulch, 

 mixed phlox would be good. 



On the north side of the house we 

 dug out a bed to the depth of sixteen 

 inches, filled in first with broken 

 crockery, tinware and old shoes; then 

 ordinary soil; next, a two-inch layer 

 of charcoal; after that, good garden 

 soil well enriched with very old ma- 

 nure. In this bed we planted lilies, 

 each bulb in a litle nest of sand. 



Lilium auratum, spec, album and ru- 

 brum and L. longiflorum thrive and 

 bloom beautifully. I have never suc- 

 ceeded with L. candidum, but shall 

 try again. 



A fine clump of funkia alba at one 

 end, hemerocallis flava at the other, 

 and ferns growing between the tall 

 lilies make this bed very beautiful. 



Last fall we invested in bulbs for 

 ■Winter blooming. We kept to the old 



reliable hyacinths, tulips and narcis- 

 sus. We planted no mixtures; always 

 three or five of a kind in a pot, except 

 the Dutch hyacinths; they were potted 

 singly. 



The Roman hyacinths were lovely; 

 Dutch hyacinths very fine; of narcis- 

 sus we wished we had more, especially 

 Von Sion. 



But oh, the tulips! Some were gor- 

 geously, others exquisitely beautiful. 

 Rose luisante was my favorite. Ros- 

 ine is dainty and pretty; salvator rose 

 beautiful, tournesol yellow extra good, 

 fine flower, neat growth, Mon Tresor, 

 very flne; Rembrandt and vermillion 

 brilliant, very good scarlet sorts; Pot- 

 tebaker white is almost as beautiful 

 as a lily. Proserpine surprised us; the 

 catalogue describes it as violet rose; 

 ours was a rich color, almost a pure 

 crimson. I must have them by the 

 dozen this year. 



They were so easy to grow. We sim- 

 ply potted them in rich, mellow gar- 

 den soil, with an inch of charcoal for 

 drainage. They were placed in the 

 cellar in a box covered with a window 

 screen to keep out mice, left in the cel- 

 lar for six weeks or longer, and wat- 

 ered once a week. Friends, try grow- 

 ing tulips! 



Indiana. Emma Meyer. 



STOWING AWAY THE SUMMER FLOWERING 

 BULBS. 



For a number of years I have tried 

 several methods of keeping my sum- 

 mer flowering bulbs over winter, and 

 find that the majority of them must 

 be kept perfectly dry. The caladium, 

 if kept moist, will rot every time. If 

 placed in a box of dry sand and box 

 raised above floor of pit or cellar, they 

 will come out -sound and healthy in 

 the spring. 



Last winter I kept my bulbs of spot- 

 ted calla, gloxinia and tuberose in the 

 self-sealing tin cans. I put a thick 



