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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 
White : Alida, White Pottebakker, Jagt van Delft, Luna, Nonsuit. 
Various: Roi Pepin, white and crimson; Due d’Aremberg, crim- 
son and gold ; Florida, deep mauve ; Keizerkroon, crimson and gold ; 
Thomas Moore, yellow and buff; Van der Neer, puce; Prosperine, 
crimson ; Bonaparte, chocolate. 
Double : The best doubles for a group are La Candeur, Rex 
Rubrorum, Tournesol, Yellow Rose. 
THE BULB GARDEN. 
OW is the time for laying in a stock and planting ; the 
latter operation, indeed, should be no longer delayed, 
for it is desirable every bulb should be well rooted 
before winter. Nature is a sure instructor in this duty 
of early planting ; for keep them where you will, bulbs 
now give signs of life. Hyacinths, tulips, and crocuses are deve- 
loping their leaf-buds, and unless the formation of roots keeps pace 
with the growth of foliage, the future plant will suffer. I have 
generally observed in gardens a great parsimony in reference to bulbs 
in the open air ; they are planted too far apart, and there are too few 
of them to make a good display. Yet what can better repay all the 
labour and money expended on them ? How dull will the garden 
be for many months if this interesting class of flowers is neglected. 
The growth of bulbs is indeed a winter and spring study, and a 
most beautiful style of gardening has been enjoyed and has dis- 
appeared before the beds can admit the tender exotics which are to 
adorn them in summer and autumn. 
My advice is, to be generous now. If you can afford to do so, buy 
crocuses by thousands, and tulips and hyacinths by hundreds. Re- 
member they are all very fond of increase, and with care your outlay 
will come back with interest. But be careful how you buy. Go to 
a respectable florist and not to auctions, and lay in a stock of healthy 
and sound bulbs, and next season you may calculate on adding 
seventy-lb e per cent, to your collection, without reckoning small 
offsets. Crocuses and tulips multiply without much trouble ; and I 
have found by some years’ experience that hyacinths may be suc- 
cessfully propagated here as well as in Holland. Quantity is indis- 
pensable if you would be a bulb amateur in the garden, and the 
outlay of a few pounds will make you the envy of your neighbours, 
and become a source of profound enjoyment to yourself. There are 
many other bulbs besides those I have mentioned, which ought not 
to be neglected, and the above kinds are only adduced as examples. 
These bulbs may be grown in beds or in borders, according to room 
and circumstances. Have, at any rate, one bed appropriated to 
crocuses, that vour eyes and heart may be gladdened, when in 
January or February a kindly sun calls forth their gorgeous beauties. 
Let this bed, intended for early effect, have every advantage you can 
give it, sloping towards the south, well dramed, and composed of 
friable, generous mould. Such a bed may have a few early tulips 
