SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
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Planting of Single Tulips 
MAY-FLOWERING TULIPS, continued 
Apples or other fruit trees are particularly good. Or a bed can be so planted that 
it gets intervals of sunshine at different times during the day, and the shadows of 
any sort of trees or of buildings at 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 time 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 flowers fade. 1 do not mean simply holding the hose on them a 
few minutes each evening, wetting 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. 'Phis 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 the)- will not be dug into. But the best 
arrangement is to plant in beds 3 to 4 feet wide, and to lift, when ripe, each season. 
COLLECTION OF LATE TULIPS 
The ten sorts in this collection are excellent varieties, the value given is most satis- 
factory, and I am happy to say that my customers have realized this and bought this 
collection mostl ibcrally. One hundred bulbs, my selection, $2.25; fifty bulbs, $1.25. 
In REDS and SCARLETS I offer Gesneriana major, which is really the very best of 
all Late Tulips. The color is a glowing scarlet, with a blue-black eye, and the stems are 
