SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
DOUBLE EARLY 
TULIPS 
There are many Double Early 
Tulips, and while j have little use 
for most of them, Murillo is too 
good to pass by. It is a double 
Cottage Maid in soft rose-flushed 
white. The flowers suggest pond- 
lilies. Either in pots or in the 
garden it is charming, and it is 
very decorative when picked. 3c. 
each, 30 els. per doz., $2 per 100. 
See No. 1, front cover. 
PARROT TULIPS 
This is a race of gorgeously 
colored Tulips, with very large 
flowers fancifully cut and slashed 
in the oddest way. They have 
short stems, and must be grown 
here like early single Tulips — 
with considerable light shade. Can 
be forced late without heat, and 
are specially valuable as polled 
plants. Mixed bulbs, all colors, 
3 cts. each, 25 cts. per doz., Si. 50 
per 100. 
MAY -FLOWERING, 
or COTTAGE TULIPS 
These splendid, long-stemmed 
Tulips and the equally tall Dar- Parrot Tulips 
wins and their cousins, the Rem- 
brandts, are late-flowering classes well adapted lo California conditions. When a 
few points arc carefully observed, they can be grown in wonderful perfection. In 
exceptional springs they do well in the open sun, — such a spring as that of 191 1 ; but more 
often hot days come early, and a light shade is essential to gel all of the beauty they arc- 
capable of producing. 
If you arc growing the Cottage Tulips for cut-flowers rather than for a mass of color, 
and the bed is large, the best possible shade is a frame-work witli moveable laths. 
Next to that is the shade of deciduous trees which arc in leaf at Tulip-time. Apples 
or other fruit trees are particularly good. Or a bed can be so planted thai it gets inter- 
vals of sunshine at different times during the day, and the shadows of any sort of trees 
or of buildings al intervals. The shade of a house well answers, and the bed may be either 
on the east or west side, but not north or south of a building; a situation where the 
shade of a building covers the bed at some lime of the day, but leaves sun earlier or 
later, is an excellent arrangement. 
Again, if we would have the best, we must water liberally when the buds first show 
and until the [lowers fade. 1 do not mean simply holding the hose on them a few min- 
utes each evening, welting the surface and leaving the under soil half dry; but, at 
intervals of a few days, giving good soakings. 1 have found a mulch of half-rotted 
manure put on before the Tulips come through the ground, a most excellent thing. 
When I want the finest flowers, I dissolve nitrate of soda to make a saturated solution 
and dilute it to one-quarter strength. This I sprinkle on the soil every few days as 
the buds swell, and wash in with pure water. Xot all of this trouble is necessary to have- 
good flowers, but the observance of each point improves them. 
.Ml 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. Hut the best arrange- 
ment is to plant in beds 3 to 4 feci wide, and to lift, when ripe, each season. This 
method clears the bed for the summer-flowering annuals that must be planted early in 
the season if the gardener is to achieve the greatest success. 
