SELECT BULBS FOR FALL PLANTING 
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MAY-FLOWERING TULIPS, continued 
few minutes each evening, wetting the surface and leaving the under-soil half dry; 
but, at intervals of a few days, giving good soakings. I 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. 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 
arrangement is to plant in beds 3 to 4 feet wide, and to lift, when ripe, each season. 
Collection olt 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 have realized this and bought this collection most liberally. The 100- 
bulb lot, $2.25. Five each of the same set, $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 
often 22 inches high. See No. I, on back cover. Fulgens is clear deep red, with pointed 
petals, and it will be just 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. Similar in color, but more like Major in habit, is Gesneriana auran- 
tiaca, the orange Gesneriana, a grand flower; and Macrospeila, another form of Gesne- 
riana, is deep blood-red, with showy black eye; 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 reds, 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 a golden Gesneriana, although 
not quite so tall; for price see Retroflcxa; Parisian 
Yellow (No. 4, sec back cover) is perhaps the best 
yellow, and its price is 4 cts. each, 40 cts. per doz., 
$2.75 per 100. Moonlight is clear yellow. I sell it 
for 15 cts. each. Bouton d'Or is golden, tall, stiff- 
stemmed, and makes a fine color-mass when cut, 
although smaller-flowered than the others. It is 
cheap at 3 cts. each, 25 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
Retroflexa is a light canary-yel- 
low, long-stemmed, large- flowered, 
and with reflexed petals. Both 
Retroflexa and Gesneriana lutea 
arc 4 cts. each, 40 cts. per doz., 
$3 per 100. 
SCARLET AND GOLD : The 
preceding Tulips have all been in 
solid colors. Golden Crown, wilh 
a body of rich yellow, penciled with scarlet, finally 
becomes a sort of old-gold throughout. Dwarf. 1 
sell it at 3 cts. each, 25 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. 
WHITE AND PINK: Still prettier is Picotee : 
which opens light cream, lightly penciled with pink, 
and becomes pure white suffused throughout with 
pink. 3 cts. each, 30 cts. per doz., $2 per 100. Sec 
No. 3, back cover. Dame Eleganti is a supert 
Tulip, pure white, irregularly slashed with scarlet- 
tall and brilliant. 40 cts. per doz., or $3 per 100. 
BROWN AND VARIEGATED : The Bizarres 
are really forms of Darwin Tulips, having a dark 
mahogany-brown, richly striped in other shades, 
They correspond in brown to the Rcmbrandts in 
lighter colors. These are 3 cts. each 25 els. per doz., 
$2 per 100. Picotee Tulips 
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