BULB GROWING AT THE UNITED STATES BULB GARDEN, 
19 
imported. Fifty bulbs of the same variety, from imported and 
Bellingham stock, respectively, were planted in rows side by side on 
the same date and continued under the same conditions throughout 
the experiment. As a rule, the plants from the Bellingham bulbs were 
freer from disease and flowered from five to seven days earlier than 
those from imported 
bulbs. In addition to 
this, the flowers were 
on longer stems and 
were of better color 
and quality than 
those from the im- 
ported bulbs. Figure 
15 shows three of 
the varieties that 
were included in this 
test. 
FORCING TESTS. 
Figures 19 to 21, 
inclusive, show some 
of the results of a 
forcing test of Bel- 
lingham - grown and 
imported tulip bulbs 
during the season of 
1912-13 at a green- 
house of the United 
States Department of 
Agriculture, Wa s h- 
ington, D. C, and at 
a commercial green- 
in 
the 
same 
Fig. 19.- — Bulbs of imported and Bellingham-grown tulips. 
Five bulbs of the Couleur Cardinal variety that were 
taken from the end row of one of the two flats of im- 
ported stock (upper figure) and five bulbs of the same 
variety taken from the end row of one of the two flats 
of Bellingham-grown stock (lower figure). The two lots 
of bulbs were planted in the boxes on October 30, 1912, 
all being treated alike, and taken into the greenhouse on 
January 25, 1913. The bulbs in both cases were removed 
from the flats on the following day and photographed on 
the same plate, side by side. 
house 
city. 
The differences be- 
tween the Belling- 
ham-grown and im- 
ported bulbs of sev- 
eral other varieties 
included in this sea- 
son's forcing test are equally as striking as those shown in figure 21. 
In the case of the Keizerskroon variety, the difference in the size 
of the plants and the time of flowering is not quite so marked as in 
other varieties. There is, however, a noticeable difference in favor 
of the Bellingham-grown bulbs both in the height of the plants and 
