DESIGNING A GARDEN FOR BULBS 
T HERE are two ways of handling 
bulbs, just as there are two ways of 
handling all kinds of flowers : the definitely 
designed garden is one — the garden which 
is commonly called “formal" — while the 
happy carelessness of a border here and 
another there, where opportunity seems 
to offer, and naturalized masses in long 
grass, is the other. Each has its merits 
and advantages; each makes its distinct 
appeal to a distinct temperament; and 
actually, neither one precludes the other. 
One may encourage bulbs to grow as Na- 
ture scatters daisies and buttercups, and 
still have a prim, trim garden wherein 
stately iris and pallid lilies preserve the 
stiff decorum becoming in the gentlefolk 
of bygone days. Personally I know of 
nothing which affords greater satisfac- 
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