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H. A. Hyde Company 
TULIP CULTURE 
While tulips grown in the full sun will give good results, it is best to plant them in 
partial shade. This is essentially true in Southern California and very warm sections. This 
will protect them against unexpected warm spells during the growing and flowering season 
and will produce longer stems, a longer blooming season, and prevent a scorching of the 
flowers. 
Lighten heavy soil with peat moss, avoid manure except as a mulch and spread a little 
sand under the bulbs when planting. 
Tulips succeed best when planted at a uniform depth of from four to five inches. This 
uniform planting depth is essential to insure all individuals of a given variety to bloom at 
the same time and to grow to a uniform height. This appearance is the essence of a perfect 
bed of tulips. 
Care should be taken not to allow the ground to dry out at any time during the growing 
season. As the flowers fade, cut the blossoms directly below the flower at the top of the 
stem. This prevents the seed pod from forming to deplete the vitality of the bulb for the 
following season. 
If the bed is to be used after the tulips flower for other plantings, lift the bulbs and heel 
them in loose soil out of the sun where the foliage will ripen slowly. The tulip bulbs which 
you purchase will be of the highest possible quality carefully grown by the world’s finest 
producers and will give excellent results the first year. Following this first season’s bloom, 
we suggest moving them to a cut-flower garden where they may remain in the ground 
indefinitely to be used for picking. Under Pacific Coast conditions they cannot be definitely 
depended on and your supply for effect should be renewed each year to give the maximum 
satisfaction. A few new tulips purchased each year obviously does not represent a great 
outlay of capital. 
EARLY SINGLE TULIPS 
KEIZERSKROON—Early single tulip striped yellow and red. $.75 dozen. $6.00 per 100. 
GENERAL DE WET—Large bold sweet scented flowers, deep orange, center yellow. $.75 
dozen. $6.00 per 100. 
RED TULIPS 
MRS. ALLARD PIERSON—Darwin. Extra early. Rich velvety red. Fine stem. $.75 dozen. 
$6.00 per 100. 
PRINCE OF WALES—Darwin. Brilliant rosy red. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
PRIDE OF HAARLEM—Darwin. Bright red. $.65 dozen. $4.75 per 100. 
WHISTLER—Darwin. Large vivid maroon-crimson. $.65 dozen. $4.75 per 100. 
FARNSCOMBE SANDERS—Darwin. Fiery scarlet. $.65 dozen. $4.75 per 100. 
CITY OF HAARLEM—Pure scarlet. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
FEU BRILLIANT—Very large, brilliant clear scarlet. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
WM. PITT—Darwin. Very dark scarlet. Large flower. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
VICTOIRE D’OLIVIER—Darwin. Strong bright crimson color. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
KING HAROLD—Darwin. Dark crimson. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
LA TULIPE NOIRE—Darwin. Deep maroon, almost black. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
GESNERI AN A SPATHULATA—Cottage. Brilliant fiery scarlet. Large flower with pointed 
petals on long strong stem. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
WHITE TULIPS 
MISS BLANCHE—Cottage. Creamy turning to waxy white. Darwin form. $.75 dozen. $6.00 
per 100. 
ALBINO—Cottage. Pure lasting white of Darwin form. $1.00 dozen. $7.50 per 100. 
ZWANENBERG—Darwin. A fine lasting white. $1.00 dozen. $8.00 per 100. 
THEMIS—Cottage. Pure white long, loose flower. $1.00 dozen. $8.00 per 100. 
PICOTEE—Cottage. White pointed petals margined rose. $.75 dozen. $5.75 per 100. 
MT. TACOMA—Double. Large double pure white peony-type flower. $2.00 dozen. $15.00 
per 100. 
