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SEED-TIME km HARVEST. 
it is necessary to use the lawn mower, and 
the bulbs will not sustain the least injury. 
Simply raise the turf with a trowel and in¬ 
sert the bulb; it will find its way through 
the grass when the time comes. 
Another very early bulbous flowering 
plant, even earlier than the Crocus, is the 
Snow-Drop. The appearance of the white 
flowers in March is always a pleasing sur¬ 
prise. The bulbs are small: plant in the 
fall, several in a bed, about two inches 
apart. Cover two inches deep. Like the 
Crocus, the Snow-Drop is very pretty on 
the lawn in the Spring, and mowing will 
not injure the bulbs for the leaves will be 
pretty well matured before it is necessary 
to cut the grass. The bulbs can remain 
several years without removal and are 
perfectly liardy. The Snow-Drop can be 
grown in pots for winter blooming. A doz¬ 
en can be placed in a saucer or small pot. 
They make very desirable winter bloomers. 
It is the better plan to plant Lilies in the 
fall. It is not always that a Lily will flow¬ 
er the first year after being transplanted, 
as it has perennial roots and removal is a 
check upon its growth. 
Plant the Tulip in October and Novem¬ 
ber. It does well in any good garden soil; 
if the soil is poor apply well-rotted stable 
manure, leaf mold, or rotted sods. Make 
DOUBLE TULIP. 
the soil fine and deep and have it well 
drained. Cover three inches deep—setting 
the earlier flowering kinds five inches 
apart and the late ones six inches apart. 
Nothing among the flowers is more dazzling 
and gorgeous than a bed of good Tulips; 
and they are perfectly hardy and do well 
under the most ordinary treatment. The 
finest effect is produced by massing them. 
By making a selection of-those which flow¬ 
er at different times a succession can be 
kept up for at least a month. 
More New Strawberries. 
THE MAY KING. 
It seems almost useless for any one to try 
to keep up with the strawberry men in their 
attempts to produce something that shall ex¬ 
ceed all other berries in all desirable quali¬ 
ties, and almost all of them, in offering a 
new berry to the public, are very particular 
to specify all of its prominent character¬ 
istics with superlatives, so much so that the 
reader is quite convinced that it must, of 
necessity, be the best in existence. Our cut 
represents the May King , a new berry of 
which the introducer, Mr. John S. Collins, 
says but little, but of which Mr. Clias. H. 
Stewart, a Philadelphia dealer says: “I 
have been selling Tlios. Zanes’s new straw¬ 
berry the May King, and I consider it a 
very valuable berry. The quality is of the 
very best, firm, good shipper, large size, 
bright red color, commands the highest 
price in market, and comes in very early. 
Although southern berries were plenty this 
season in the market, a large proportion of 
the May King sold at twenty-five cents per 
quart wholesale by the crate.” 
With this recommendation we give its 
portrait, and have no doubt, if our readers 
desire to test it, it will be offered in our 
advertising columns ere long. 
THE “JUMBO.’’ 
This berry has a peculiar claim made for 
it, and one well worth considering. Mr. 
A. M. Purdy, whose advertisement appears 
