7G4 THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. o^^ q-^^ 



NARCISSUS CULTURE FOR Jio^'^ew^'Joote 'Lt 'orm^^'^^ broad-^rnS'fLk^L Tjflist^W^^ 



PROFIT. with' the drying of the old, and a decided the most suitable time to perforn 



injury is done by keeping such varieties out is at the end of October of begini 



Until ten or twelve years ago the Dutch of the ground for a lengthened period. With vember. If performed earlier tl 



lad almost a monopoly of the bulb trade of few exceptions, however, narcissi may be risk of another crop of weeds ap 



:his country, but bulb cultivation has re- planted as late as Christmas and still give dene later, the bulbs 



gently been successfully undertaken in vari- fair 

 5 parts of the British " " " 



large centres, t 

 : by the further 

 a the South Lin 



planting is during August and September, 

 and all planting should certainly be finished 

 during October. The ground should be dry 



damage : 



le foliage pushes through the ground, soot 

 ay be applied broadcast and lightly har- 

 ,wed or raked in. This is especially reoom- 



are now planted, several of the larger growers depth^ and the smaller ones propor- rowed or raked in. This is especially 



having from twenty to hfty acres under cul- tionately shallower. Various methods of mended where bulbs have remained 



tivation. Au ideal bulb soil is found here, planting are adopted, and the area to be same position two or three years, 



which, with good culture produces bulbs infinence the method decided During the spring months weeds must be 



equal to thc>,c grown in Ho land, and. in [ y^^^^,. ^ grovvors use a one-hor^e kept in clieck by hoeing and hand-weeding, 



s£Ze er^ort^JdVT^^^^ plough to vvhicl, is fixed a special share that care being taken that" the least possible 



duS'from^'?f,i« centred Ti.TrLZl. works in the bottom of the furrow and makes ^1,^"?^? ^« ^one to thejoha^^^^ 



England wliere The soil™anY c 



and others. 



The Board of Agriculture has issued a ^^^^^^ . ^^^„, ^. ...^ ^ , 



leaflet (No. 224) dealing with the commercial """"^'f'T^ 'u^ V^' t ^/-fil^ 'w. n 



and on large establishments the When the foliage di< 



leditiously performed in this way. should be hoed over 



ulv-four to thirty planters are main another year, a 



() keep the plough constantly at be repeated two or 



ai acre, a day may be planted, summer months, wh 



culd be: Man and horse per day, necessary until th 

 phmters 



„K Pcf vv.. rPiirnrl.icP \f in ^ variety of bulb IS being planted in large 

 d fSm. ^^^''''"^''''^ ^ quantities. The work proceeds in the ordi- 



£3 12s. 



a single 

 ig planted in ^ ' 



lightly abridged form. ^^^^ ^^^^^ ploughing, one furrow covering COLOUR NOMENCLATURE , 



I.— GROWING BULBS FOR SALE. 



Kl» Qnilc vioiisly made. The furrows are about nine For many years the Royal Horticul^ 



Suitable Soils. ten inches wide, and every seventh furrow tural Society has been confronted with tl^ 



tinplanted, and this forms a path, difficulty of describing exactly the colour 



hen blo()ii;-<rallicniig, ricaniug^ etc. be distinctly and definitely intelligible 



»small ana, air plautt d. a (lifteient New York and Paris, Berlin and Queb( 



must I.V a(l<.pt<d. Thr Inllowiiig irs etc., as in London. It is a difficulty shared j 



litable di^ 



"line across the end of the first division, an international code, by which 



fo7 narcisdr When "preparing it 'for the ?nd with a spade throw out a shallow open- where, could convey to anyone 



potato crop, the land ought to receive a J"? ^" ^^'^'^^^l^'f '^Hf^ fhrirnnl'l'H''Ijit'tri!'Sj 



heavy dressing of farmyard manure, from il^s done, shift the line the width of the the colour and shade he is speal 



^ ^ — ""V nine inches; then proceed to open With this end in view we se 



leared off, i 



■inning of August, the land should be »t'c«u«- -ri;uc*;«u mus witu bui;™iiis iu*v«, colours between wmte ana DiacK, witn xae 



ply ploughed or dug so that the enriched again leaving every seventh unplanted to name of each in French, German, English, 



smt is placed in a position to allow the form a path. By this method one man with Spanish, and Italian, together with four 



. 1 „ . ■ , • . . r , . .X. ., ^^^■AAo will two planters busy, and the shades o* """"^ --i-^-- +V,at 



ready pj^anted^row with^the soil^ f rom the finding an excellent one containing j 



done by the plough the ground should be and witli paths 12in. wide. 1 he soil from for "rosy-pink,"] 



broken up by harrowing and rolling, but if the first bed is taken out to a depth of three The cost of p: 



duff bv the spade it should be broken up as inches and wheeled to the far end of the divi- printed and so la 



digging proceeds. This accomplished, and a sion; this firet bed is then carefully raked, very heavy, and i 



good tilth obtained, the land is -then ready and marked across in rows six inches apart, 



for jjlanting. ^ The soil should be uniformly The bulbs are then planted, and this bed 



Slc^Itta'^tlie'^fxact cSour and shade 

 iower, or a silk, or a painting, need only 

 efer to the colour chart number, quof - "* 

 or "apricot," e.g., page 53, shade 3; 



f s^ iSautifuIly 



Manures. 



the plants, and this 

 recommending that 1 

 a crop as potatoes, ^ 



red with ^ 



id so the work proceeds to the end of lisher, is able to supply it to o 



ision. This method, although a little and others at 14s. 6d., or if by poi 



xpensive than the preceding, has ad- Mv excuse for asking for spa^ 



le nmSSr of vlHeTie^ln mfll* valuable journal to make this wic 

 as the danger of mixing sorts is less 



irea -wiU vary considerabl^, according 

 iize of bulb produced by the particular 



but^ unless the ground is in good condition, 

 it is not an excessive quantity. Good bulbs, 



pojr land. If it be necessary to plant on , . „ i„Uo,,r involved is in Wr^iric 



land which has not recently been well ^ he ^ro7nd clean and the^a^ 



marured, bone-meal is probably the best „,telTv^^^^;fe"kc^^^^^^^ 



artificial manure to "-^at the time «f plant- ^ J ^^^^ ^Vlien p ant 



ing— it should be appbed at the rate of ten to j^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^.j^, Aup-ustm 



Time of Planting:. 



'Ill 



f once we could establish thi 



"ue^nru^^'woiad develoVin al 

 I need hardly say that our 



