They will keep in perfect condition and will be so conveniently 
at hand to be planted permanently in the spring as soon as the 
ground can be worked. This is a wise precaution to take if 
you live at any great distance from the nurseries for it insures 
you your plant material at the psychological moment in the 
Spring when the nurseries are so rushed that there is bound 
to be delay in your orders. 
^Mere Bulbs Since writing the September Miscellany, many more bulbs 
have come in. I want to speak especially of the helpful mono- 
graph on Tulips on page 3 of Vaughan's Bulb Catalog. It 
seems to cover everything one could wish to know about the 
culture as well as the varieties of this fascinating flower. I 
have pasted it in the back of my Garden Scrap Book for easy 
reference. Vaughan has 174 varieties listed which is unusual 
this year. It is too late for you to order your tulips now and 
if you fear that the ground will be frozen before they arrive, 
you can make the beds now and cover them with litter or 
manure to keep out the frost till they arrive. After they are 
planted and after the ground is frozen over them, cover the 
beds again with the litter to keep them cold and prevent their 
starting too early. 
Depth to Plant Tulips six inches deep, measuring from the base of 
Plant the bulb. 
Anna Gilman Hill. 
Plant Material 
Thank fortune that in writing of ''Plant Material" one 
may ramble a bit, or indeed, the lot of the present writer 
would be a hard one ! For ideas of such material are vagrant 
ones ; a chance planting here, a glimpse seen there, a carefully 
tried-out scheme in one's own back yard — and together they 
go jumbling in one's mental pigeon-holes, to be sorted out on 
that Some Day, which never comes — unless the Bulletin gets 
after one ! And so, let us make this a ramble indeed ; a record 
of chance notes, and chiefly for small gardens and small purses, 
like my own! 
First, a delightful combination of color and form, useful 
alike in the smallest or largest of gardens, tall, white Fox- 
gloves, rising behind a low mass of the Mountain Laurel, 
Kalmia latifolia, or Fox-gloves, both pink and white, among and 
in front of Ehododendrons, tall spires of bloom among the soft, 
rosy masses of Ehododendron blossoms, on an evergreen- 
crowned hill-side seen long ago in an Iris:h twilight. 
Another delightful bit of color for a lake or seaside garden, 
was just one clump of blazing scarlet Oriental Poppies, beside 
a few tall Cedars, with blue water for a background. 
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