Hyacinths, 6 inches deep, 5 to 6 inches apart. 
Tulips, 4 to 5 inches deep, 5 to 6 inches apart. 
English Iris and Spanish Iris, 3 inches deep and 4 inches apart. 
Lilium Auratum, 1 inches deep. 
All other Lilies, 8 inches deep. 
Lilium Candidum should be planted in August and not later 
than September 15th. 
Some Suggestions for £ulip*G3roupings or 
Combinations witb ©tber flowers 
MRS. FRANCIS KING, Michigan Garden Club 
Tulip Bouton d'Or among such Oncocyclus Irises as Isis and 
Helen. 
Tulip Le Reve with Mertensia Virginica. 
Tulips Purple Perfection, Vitellina, and Innocence to be planted 
below lilac Ludwig Spaeth. 
Tulips President Lincoln with Tulips Mrs. Collier and Doctor 
Hardy. 
Tulip The Fawn among groups of hydrangea arborescens. 
A beautiful arrangement seen this season was the following: Iris 
Germanica Queen of May, tall dark purple-blue lupin, iris Madame 
Chereau, Oriental poppies Mary Studholme and Mrs. Perry. This 
might be called a close harmony, delightfully subtle and original. 
Tulips retroflexa grandiflora, Brunnhilde, and White Hawk, 
with hyacinth Lord Derby, or hyacinth Holbein. 
paper TKHbite IRarcissi Grown in Sanfc anfc> 
pebbles 
MRS. CHARLES T. CRESSWELL, Philadelphia 
The bulbs may be started as early as the 1st of October. Place 
them quite close together in a shallow bowl, which will hold about 
2 or 3 inches of water. First put about x /z an inch of sand or fine 
gravel in the bowl, then the bulbs are to be placed on that, and small 
pebbles added until not much more than the long sprout is out, show- 
ing above the pebbles. Then fill up with water, just enough to show 
on top of pebbles and put the bowl at once in a window where it will 
get full sunlight. When the bulbs are rooted and the shoots about an 
inch high, water them with Dreer's plant food or Bonora or any other 
fertilizer of that nature, dilute according to directions on the box, 
or at the time of planting a little bonemeal can be put in the bowl 
