THE AMATEUR’S FLOWER GARDEN. 
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they were found much shrivelled and half grown in their 
several drawers in the seed-rooms. On that day we planted 
about three thousand bulbs on a piece of rough ground in the 
kitchen garden. They had scarce a drop of rain (for it was a 
season of drought), and were never watered nor weeded. At 
the end of June they were taken up and stored away. In the 
month of October following they were planted in the flower 
garden, and at the time of writing this paragraph (May 2) 
they are just go- «= 
ing out of bloom, 
having made a 
glorious display. 
Again, a lot of 
early tulips, hya¬ 
cinths, and narcis¬ 
sus, bought in the 
autumn of 1870, 
were unavoidably 
neglected until the 
1st of March, 187.1, 
when they were all 
planted in the kitchen garden to “ save their lives.” On this 
same 2nd of May they are all in perfection of flower, but a 
great batch of crocuses, planted at the same time, have very 
nearly perished. 
The late or show tulips are well adapted for borders, in 
which they can be left for several years ; but they are not 
adapted for the parterre, because they cannot be cleared away 
in proper time for the planting of the summer bedders which 
should follow. When grown in projoer florists’ fashion, they 
are planted in beds four feet wide, the sorts being arranged 
so that they graduate in heights from the sides to the centre, 
as in the subjoined figure. A bed of sixty rows of good 
named show tulips—that is, 420 bulbs in all-—may be obtained 
for £20 ; and as for the early tulips, the prices of the very 
best range from ten to thirty shillings per hundred. 
TULIP BED. 
A SELECTION OF TWO HUNDRED SHOW TULIPS. 
The following is a list of 200 cheap first-class sorts, which 
every beginner should possess, as they stand in the foremost 
rank at all our great exhibitions :— 
Bizarres. —First Bow: Albion , Dr. Horner , Goldham*s 
