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The bulbs should be separated into four or five sizes before plant- 
3 ing. In spring plantings of the seedling bulbs out of the house, two 
sizes will probably be sufficient ; for in this case the bulbs will be large, 
with very little, if any, propagation. They will be simply the large 
seedling bulbs. Assuming that the rows are uniformly 6 to 8 inches 
apart, the larger of these sizes can be planted about seven to the row 
and the smaller nine to the row. They should be uniformly spaced 
and set up. After the seedlings have been grown outside for a year, 
however, there will be a large propagation of bulblets, and conse- 
quently it will be better to make four or five sizes. 
Fic. 8.—Bulbs being planted in a Dutch bed. 
In starting the planting on the bed plan, it is necessary to line out 
the beds carefully with taut lines, marked off by running a spade 
down 2 or 3 inches along the line and scraping the soil toward the 
center of the bed from either side. The soil is then thrown out of the 
first bed to a depth of about 4 inches and the bottom raked to a level. 
The bulbs are then set and spaced, as already described. The soil 
from the opening of the second bed is used to cover the bulbs in the 
first, and so on to the end of the plat. Figure 8 shows this method 
of planting the narcissus on Puget Sound and illustrates the opera- 
tion very well. 
After the first year there will be more than two sizes, as there will 
be plenty of stem bulblets at the next digging. It will then be neces- 
sary to plant a larger number to the row. One may have 14 and 21 
