SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
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MAY-FLOWERING TULIPS, continued 
If your object is cut-flowers, and the 
bed is large, the best possible shade is a 
framework with movable laths for shade. 
Next to that is the shade of deciduous 
trees which are in leaf at Tulip-time. 
Apples or other fruit trees are particularly 
good for the purpose. Or a bed can be 
so planted that it enjoys intervals of 
sunshine at different times during the 
day, while the shadow of any sort of 
trees or of buildings catch them at in- 
tervals, and under such circumstances 
success is assured. The famous Tulips 
at my gardens at "The Terraces" are 
shaded by groves of young black oaks 
which are just coming into leaf at their 
flowering time. 
Again, we must water liberally when 
the buds first show and until the flowers 
fade if we would have the best; and by 
watering I do not mean simply holding 
the hose on them a few minutes each eve- 
ning, wetting the surface and leaving the 
under soil half dry, but at intervals of a 
few days giving good soakings. Still 
again I have found a mulch of half- 
rotted manure, put on before the Tulips 
come through the ground, a most ex- 
cellent thing; and when I want the finest 
flowers I dissolve nitrate of soda to 
make a saturated solution and dilute it 
Gesneriana Tulips to one quarter strength. This I sprinkle 
on the soil every few days as the buds 
swell, and wash in with pure water. Not all of this trouble is necessary to have good 
flowers but the observance of each point improves them. 
All late Tulips can be planted in the borders with perennials or low shrubs if their 
situation is carefully marked so that they will not be dug into. But the best arrange- 
ment is to plant in beds 3 or 4 feet wide and to lift when ripe each season. 
COLLECTION OF LATE TULIPS 
I make a collection of late Tulips consisting of ten bulbs each of ten named varieties, 
my own choice, from the following list. As I have included in this list none but most 
excellent varieties, the value given is most satisfactory, and I am happy to say that 
my customers realize this and buy this collection most liberally. 100 bulbs of this 
collection, $2.25. 
In REDS and SCARLETS I offer Gesneriana Major, which is really the very 
best of all Late Tulips, and which seems to thrive at every point about San Francisco 
Bay and in Northern California. The color is a glowing scarlet, with a blue-black eye, 
and the stems are often 22 inches high. 
Not less bril'iant is Fulgens in clear deep red with pointed petals, and it will be 
as much of a favorite when it is better known. 
Gorgeous is the only word for La Merveille (The Marvel), first orange-red and 
then a rare shade of red, and although hardly so tall as the first two, the flower is larger. 
A little similar in color, but more like Major in habit is Gesneriana aurantiaca, the 
orange Gesneriana, a grand flower; and Macrospeila still another form of Gesneriana 
is deep blood-red, with showy black eye, and in the sun no Tulip outshines it. The 
price of all these splendid Tulips is 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz., $2.25 per 100. 
While I include it among the red, Le Reve is a most exquisite pink, tinged with 
orange; I offer it at 8 cts. each, 80 cts. per doz. 
YELLOWS. — In yellows I offer four fine varieties. Gesneriana lutea is simply a 
golden Gesneriana, although not quite so tall as the scarlet type; Parisian Yellow is 
perhaps the best yellow that we common mortals can afford, and its price is 4 cts. 
each, 40 cts. per doz., $2.75 per 100. Bouton d'Or is golden, tall, stiff-stemmed and 
