14 Making a Bulb Garden 
ter — and therefore they do not come up 
to the standard of little work and great 
results which we have set. But there are 
some for all seasons which are hardy; so 
it is quite possible to have our bulb gar- 
den and to have flowers in it all the sum- 
mer through, without undue labor, and 
without the use of any other kind of 
plant. 
The gardening world was at one time 
constantly using the phrase “Cape bulb,” 
but this has lost much in definiteness since 
the first bulbous plants came up from the 
Cape of Good Hope and its neighboring 
regions, in South Africa, and were so 
designated. Hybrids of these true Cape 
bulbs are more in evidence now than the 
original types, and these are not of course 
truly Cape bulbs, although, as the off- 
spring of the original immigrants, they 
are so classified. They are mostly ten- 
der, requiring to be wintered indoors ; and 
they are fall-blooming usually; for this 
reason they are distinctly valuable, as 
