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spring months beforehand, and make your pre¬ 
parations in good time, if you want to have 
bright gardens as soon as the sunshine and 
long days return. All the spring bulbs— 
daffodils, crocus, squills, hyacinths, tulips, 
snowdrops — must be planted now. They 
should all be put in before the beginning of 
November. There is an old rhyme which tells 
us of this, and it would be well to remember it 
in the autumn :— 
If you want your garden to be bright and gay, 
Have all your bulbs in before Lord Mayor’s day. 
That is the 9th of November—the King’s 
birthday—so think of your bulbs in October. 
You can begin planting earlier, even in August, 
and for some bulbs, especially daffodils, it 
is far better to do so ; but it is difficult in 
a small garden, as the ground is covered with 
annuals, and there is no room, and, if the bulbs 
are to go in the grass, the ground is often too 
hard then for children to dig. Bulbs must be 
carefully planted, and, of course, put in the 
right way up—the pointed part, out of which 
the leaves will grow, upwards—and they must 
not be buried too deeply. According to the 
size of the bulb, they will require from one and 
a half to six inches of soil over them. They 
should be about the same distance apart; snow¬ 
drops and other small bulbs, two inches ; daffo- 
