SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
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TULIPS, continued 
Tulips in Pots for Winter Bloom. The best time to pot is in early fall. The best 
soil for potting is a compost of two parts of garden loam to one part of well-rotted cow 
manure and one part sharp sand. Use a 5- or 6-inch pot, and first put in some broken 
pieces of crock with a little loose material to insure good drainage. For a 5-inch pot, use 
three to five bulbs, and for a 6-inch pot, four to seven. Plant so that the tip of the bulb 
projects, and water moderately. Put in a cool, dark place for five or six weeks until they 
are well rooted. This can be told by gently striking the side of the pot until the soil will 
slip out. If the pot is filled with a mass of roots, the bulbs are ready to bring to the light. 
Water moderately, and do not give full sunlight, but let them come on slowly in a window 
or cool greenhouse. 
The Best Varieties to Pot. Any early single Tulip will do. Chrysolora, Cottage 
jVIaid and Keizerkroon are especially fine. Late Tulips seldom do well in pots. 
EARLY SINGLE TULIPS 
In the East and in Europe these large and wonderfully brilliant flowers are much 
used for beds of fancy design in the open garden, and are grown by the million in pots 
for winter forcing. We can grow them in pots here quite as well as they do, but in the 
opei\ garden they are apt to be a failure unless they have considerable shade and a 
cool exposure. I grow very fine long-stemmed flowers of these in my own garden, 
and some of my customers who have followed my directions are quite as successful, 
but oftener we hear of failures in the garden and always through neglect to see that 
there is considerable shade (see Shade, page 2) and proper watering. Those who will 
persist in planting early Tulips in a place fully exposed to the sun will always fail in 
California. 
The varieties that I offer are among the tallest of this section, and are all well 
adapted \o pot culture (see bottom 
of previous page). 
For forcing and pot-culture these 
are the only Tulips to use. 
YELLOWS— Chrysolora is a large 
flower, not very long-stemmed, and 
one of the favorites for potting; 
Prince De Ligny is a taller plant 
and a little lighter yellow. Both are 
excellent, and the price is 3 cents 
each, 30 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
WHITES— Pottebakker White is 
a very fine large flower, but rather 
short-stemmed, while White Swan 
is so tall as to almost suggest a late 
Tulip, and lasts a long time. Potte- 
bakker White for pots and White 
Swan for the open ground is a good 
division of the sorts. Price same as 
above. 
REDS AND SCARLETS— 
Sparkler, or Cramoisie Brilliant, 
fairly dazzles the eye with its 
orange-scarlet flowers poised on long 
stems; Prince of Austria is also 
orange-scarlet, and a larger flower 
and sweet-scented. Rembrandt is 
scarlet, but tending more to glowing 
red and wonderful in its intense 
colors. All pol well, and the price 
is 4 cts. each, 40 cts. per doz., 
$3 per 100. 
YELLOWS AND REDS— A fa- 
vorite in this color is the Keizer- 
kroon whose picture on page 2 makes 
it outsell any other early Tulip that 
Pottebakker White Tulip 
