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all rows are therefore 6 inches apart. The only variation occurs in 
the number of bulbs set in the row. Large bulbs are set 7 to the row ; 
the second size, 9 to the row; and the third, 11 to the row. (Fig. 3.) 
These are commonly set upright and one in a place. The fourth size 
is planted 14 to the row, seven clusters, or hills, of two each, the 
bulbs being placed close together in any position in which they hap- 
pen to fall. The fifth size is planted 21 to the row, seven clusters, 
or hills, of three each, the bulbs lying in any position. The sixth 
size is planted like the last — five in each of seven clusters or hills. 
Still smaller sizes are strung along about 50 to a row without any 
attempt at clustering. In practice, the number of bulbs of the last 
two sizes is only approximate, no attempt being made to count them. 
In the case of very large bulbs of hyacinths or of the Emperor nar- 
^MM^'-F y--\, *m I m^ W? cissus, which can not 
be planted without 
crowding seven to a 
6-inch row, a devia- 
tion is made in the 
spacing and the 
bulbs are set on the 
w^-'s "^^^i^^^^^^S^^^t^^^^^^^^ - mark and half way 
between, making the 
rows 9 inches apart. 
Occasionally, smaller 
sizes of bulbs are 
strewn broadcast on 
the bed. This method, 
while simplifying the 
planting, makes dig- 
ging much more difficult, for, instead of following each row across the 
bed with the digging tool, the operator must turn all the soil in the 
bed over to a sufficient depth to insure not cutting the bulbs and 
then must pick them out by hand. 
This slightly modified Dutch method has not been much followed 
in this country except on the Pacific coast, and there it has recently 
been abandoned at Eureka, Calif., by Mr. Ward, who is experiment- 
ing with methods thought to be better adapted to the use of machin- 
ery. The bulbs there are set 2 inches apart in 2-foot rows. 
In the Virginia bulb region (and a similar practice is followed 
generally on the northern Atlantic coast) the bulb beds are opened 
by turning furrows in opposite directions with a 12-inch plow. The 
dead furrow thus made is worked to a level with a cultivator, making 
a 15-inch bed, the path between being the same width as the bed. 
This is said to be similar to the Guernsey method. The bulbs are 
Fig. 
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-Planting bulbs with a small crew. 
