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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
that day we planted about three thousand bulbs on a piece of rough 
ground in the kitchen garden. They had pcarce a drop of rain (for 
it was a season of drought), and were never watered nor weeded. 
At the end of June they were taken up and stored away. In the 
month of October following they were planted in the flower garden, 
and in the following season made a glorious display. AgaiD, a lot 
of early tulips, hyacinths, and narcissus, bought in the autumn, 
were unavoidably neglected until the 1st of March, when they were 
all planted in the kitchen garden to “ save their lives.” They all 
bloomed well the following season, but a great batch of crocuses, 
plauted at the same time, nearly perished. 
The late or show tulips are well adapted for borders, in which 
they can be left for several years ; but they are not adapted for the 
parterre, because they cannot be cleared away in proper time for 
the planting of the summer bedders which should follow. When 
grown in proper florists’ fashion, they are planted in beds four feet 
wide, the sorts being arranged so that they graduate in heights from 
TULIP BED. 
the sides to the centre, as in the subjoined figure. A bed of sixty 
rows of good named show tulips — that is 420 bulbs in all — may be 
obtained for £20 ; and as for the early tulips, the prices of the very 
best range from ten to thirty shillings a hundred. 
A SELECTION OF TWO HUNDRED SHOW TULIPS. 
The following is a list of 200 cheap first-class sorts, which every 
beginner should possess, as they stand in the foremost rank at all 
our great exhibitions : — 
Bizabkeb. — First Mow : Albion, Dr. Horner, Goldham’s For- 
tunius, Golden Fleece, KiDg of Tulips, Marshal Soult, Osiris, Roi 
de Navarre, Groom’s Kuhini, Sir Edward Codrington, Lawrence’s 
Solon, Lawrence’s Selim, Stein’s Napier, Telemachus, Clarke’s 
Ulysses. Second Row : Ariadne, Apollo, Bizard Le Kaine, Coro- 
nation, Ckarbonnier Noir, Captain White, Darius, Lawrence’s Glen- 
coe, Gloria Mundi, Lawrence’s Ostade, Optimus, Lyde’s Oddity, 
Pilot, Lawrence’s Peacock, Strong’s Titian, William IV. Third 
Mow: Carter’s Leopold, Charles X., Captain Sleigh, Delaforce’s 
King, Lawrence’s Fabius, Lord Strathmore, Lord John Russell, 
Magnum Bonum, Milton, Ophir, Polyphemus (feathered), Poly- 
phemus (flamed)' Prince of the Netherlands, Strong’s Hero, Sala- 
