44 Making a Bulb Garden 
responding season comes around again 
and new leaves take up the “ripening” 
work where it was interrupted- — the work 
of assimilating the elements which it is 
the function of leaves to gather from the 
air, and to help to convert into embryo 
buds, will the storehouse be filled again. 
And then another season must come 
before it can yield its treasures; make 
and store this year, yield next — that is the 
order. So it is perfectly certain that 
when one year’s making and storing is 
interfered with, it means no bloom until 
two years roll around, the first of which 
is “making-and-storing” year and the 
next “yielding.” 
A clump of iris which is growing lusty 
and strong beneath my window now, illus- 
trates this perfectly. Last year they 
were rescued from a dump heap where a 
carelessly over-neat gardener had scat- 
tered them the year before, when he was 
enjoying a general clean-up; but the res- 
cue was effected at a time when their indus- 
