THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE, 



SPRING BULBS IN THE 

 BORDER. 



Perhaps one of the^most marked features 



employed, not only in the hardy flower 

 borders, where they used to be regarded 

 as a nuisance because they interfered with 

 the annual digging — and this point of view 



( i)])ses, and hedge banks, besides the beds 



Tlio variety is now so bewildering, and we 

 all want to grow so many kinds, that it 

 1h(!)iii('s ail increasing problem to find 

 room for iliose we want to grow. A few 

 notrs and suggestions with a view to the 



in ilir lale sprmg, and of inconveni- 



m'^Jy^lf not most ^LV^eniials'TndYhough'i't EARLY CAULIFLOWERS. 



might seem from this that bulbs and plants rj^^^^^ ^^lo still adhere to the old methi 



would agree together well in this respect, wintering voung cauliflower nlm 



there is the fact that the best time to take ^ ,^^„T,rn; In .n 1. 



up the bulbs-late June-is damaging to the ^^^^er handhghts or in ^^^^ frames whe 



perennials, the roots of which they are protection can readily be afforded dun, 



growing amongst, and October, the best severe weather will soon be pknting t] 



■ ' ^ up bulbs. But experi- tend^ to remain till spring. With caref 



aid, and in practice we attention these should give heads fit f. 



ake compromises which are ^Yie first week of Jui , 



all parties. The penodi- or later according to climate. 



digging up, or turning out, of the j g^yi foUo^ < 



I shoi 



for the purpose Suttoi 



gets over half the difficulty, the ^nd Walchen 

 nd increased root run after such ^^^^ plants art 



damage jf larger at the time they are transferred 



we find the plants are mere reliable 

 an operation making up for any damage larger at the time they are 

 which the bulbs may sustain by being taken f^om the open border to the 



up in October. If the other lifting of the ^hey should be strong 



bulbs is midway between these periodical .^^^i planted sufficiently early to become 



renovations, they will not suffer much. It established before the weather is too 



is generally found too. tiiat indivHli.al ,,,,,1 .^^ ti„,es the plants should be 



clumpsof bulbs ulnch api.oar to In. grttm- ,|„„^ hardily as possible, and 



congested can U- lakn. up uheu tl... l.^avos ahmulanco of air, excepting during 



are dying down, without i.ny mtious wcatluu-. If wintered under hand- 



jvoTtjuM- 'thi''' 1, uTlp'Tu iiu'' i'r,' 'iVi! ]Y\h-m dVt r°M- A^rd^ 



diMiliiio-, as. ludccd, tr.H|uriiily liajijUMis. slu'ltoivd from the north winds. The land 



Narcissi .-Hid tulips sliouM lir planted in he j,, good heart and deeply worked. 



^.n,ip. ,,t il,r,...or lour and smalirr tilings. [ f .^t out in this at 18 inches apart, somo 



.k.. .i„,udrop>. gr.p,. hva,-iinl,s. rroc„s,.s. ital .Mirds will iv.ult. 



' ^'^V " tes, ;,nd cluonodoxas in i ,iso make a s,.wing of that valuable 



us how quickly 



all labour available slioi 



Sedum spcctabMe atropurpu- 



them with bulbs and m Mirta.Mii- <,f 

 flowering plants. tl„- whol.. iH^iiu^ tak, 

 at the end of .Mav m tune fm- su, 



