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BARR’S GENERAL BULB CATALOGUE, Autumn, 1913. 
Hardy Bulbs & Plants. 
For extensive planting in Shrubberies, Wild Gardens, 
Woodlands, Grass Lands, etc. 
CROCUSES NATURALISED IN GRASS IN A LONDON PARK. 
A Few Remarks on Naturalising Bulbs in Grass, etc. 
This fascinating phase of gardening deserves more attention than has hitherto been bestowed upon it. 
No sight is more delightful than the fresh brightness of spring-flowers growing freely in grass land or 
lending colour to woodland walks, hedgerows, and ditches, here and there nestling at the foot of trees, 
or establishing themselves on sloping banks. 
For naturalising in grass spring flowers are especially suitable, as they bloom and are over before the 
grass grows tall enough to liide their beauty. Amongst our spring-flowering bulbs there are many gems 
which refuse to grow in cultivated borders, but when planted in grass, where they enjoy a cooler and 
more even temperature, they soon become established, and multiply freely until a regular colony is 
formed which greatly adds to the charm of the landscape. 
All formality of arrangement should be avoided, the bulbs being scattered freely from the hand and 
planted where they fall. Large irregular breaks of one kind of bulb should be made in order to obtain 
the finest effect. 
In planting under trees select spots where the soil is deepest and where the drip is least. 
Those whose gardens are of limited size might make them very beautiful in spring, by utilising the 
fringes of their lawns and any grassy mounds or shady shrubbery walks for such spring favourites as 
Daffodils, Anemones, Scillas, Crocuses, Chionodoxas, etc., reserving the borders for summer- and autumn- 
flowering herbaceous plants. 
In laige gardens and parks ample opportunities are afforded for naturalising spring-flowering bulbs, 
and very beautiful results may be attained in this way. 
In planting bulbs in grass, Barr’s Bulb Planter {see page 99) should always be used. It cuts out 
a clean piece of turf, leaving a hole to receive the bulb, and on making the second cutting clears itself 
of the first piece of turf, which lies ready at hand for covering the bulb. This handy implement saves an 
immense amount of time, and does not, as with an ordinary dibber, leave a hard resting-place for the bulb, 
while by its use the grass is not in the least disturbed. Planting should not take place while the ground is 
hard, but after the first autumn rains. 
