SPRING BULBS AND AUTUMN FLOW BBS. 61 
name. Following tlie crocuses, come hyacinths with their 
bells of fragrance, narcissus, tulips, daffodils, jonquils, 
polyanthus, ranunculus, anemone, etc. ; and these different 
yarieties of spring bulbs give a gor¬ 
geous mass of blossoms that seem to 
start from the ground without the 
accompaniment of foliage. 
The hyacinths only can be called 
sweet-scented, and probably for this 
reason they are the most popular. 
There are many yarieties of this de¬ 
sirable flower and different modes of 
culture, all of which are successful if 
a few important rules are followed. 
There will be blossoms under almost 
any circumstances, but not such blos¬ 
soms as will reward proper care and 
attention. 
Any time from the first of Octo¬ 
ber until frost is the best for plant¬ 
ing hyacinths and other spring bulbs 
in the open border. Good garden 
soil, with about two inches of well- 
rotted manure and sand mixed with 
the soil, will produce their best in 
the way of bloom, and horn shay- 
ings, or anything of an enriching na¬ 
ture, wrapped around the bulb, will add size and brightness 
to the flowers. 
Mr. Copeland recommends to the planter of bulbs to 
“ take a tin tube in the shape of a truncated cone six inches 
long, about three inches in diameter at the large end, at the 
smaller one and a half or two inches; take the bulb in 
your left hand, in your right the tube ; press the small end 
down into the earth as far as you wish to set the bulb— 
