their bulbs for fall planting? Don't delay; the choicest bulbs go first. 
Don't forget Le Reve Cottage tulip, which is sometimes listed as 
Hobbema. It is flesh color turning to salmon. Moonlight, palest yellow 
and a tall grower; La Merveille; White Hawk; and Murillo, the only 
double tuhp that I love. 
Of course if you have not tried Darwin Tulips, great three-foot 
high beauties, be sure to order a good mixture for your first experience 
among them. Stumpp has a specially good mixture at $6.00 a hundred. 
Muller-Sealey lists them at $5.00 a hundred. Van Tubergen is less of 
course, but the duty, etc., is added. After you have become familiar 
with this type of tulip you will spend all your spare cash for the rest of 
your life on the choice varieties listed m the "Catalogues de Luxe." 
Anna Oilman Hill. 
Stimulated and inspired by what I saw in the Eastern gardens, PlANT 
I have come home to the dryest summer my garden has ever known, MATERIAL 
and oh! how grateful I have been to those brave flowers that have 
girded on their armor of blossoms and marched along in spite of 
crackmg earth and searing wind. And I have watched with such inter- 
est the difference in drought-resistance between the established plant, 
the plant set last fall, and the plant set this sprmg. 
The plant shrub or tree that can be set early enough in the fall to 
make even a slight root-growl^h before the ground freezes deep, has a 
dozen chances of making a normal growth the following summer, 
to the one chance of the plant set in the sprmg, but it must be set early 
enough, and most of us are not willing to dig up our gardens or muss up 
our places to have the planting done until the frost has taken the ten- 
der beauty from our gardens. Alas, that is almost always too late! I 
prefer not to plant perennials later than the 20th of September, and I 
never plant them after the loth of October. For shrubs and trees, 
I do not plant later than November first. The difference between the 
perennials and woody plants is that the roots of perennials are as a 
rule much nearer the surface than the roots of woody plants, and the 
surface of the soil freezes, and stays frozen long before the under soil 
freezes at all, as it has the vast accumulation of summer heat to keep it 
from freezing. After moving, which is really a major operation to a 
plant, it must have at least six weeks in which to recover and make a 
slight root-growth, or it cannot resist the drymg winds of winter, 
which are far harder to endure than any degree of frost, and in the case 
of the shallow-rooted perennials, if some root-growth is not made, they 
are thrown out of the ground by the frost. 
Iris and Peonies should be settled in their permanent positions 
before the tenth of September, and much earlier than that if possible, 
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