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HOUSE & GARDEN 
Darwin Tulips 
This exquisite class of Tulips hears flow¬ 
ers four to six inches in diameter on 30- 
incli stems. 
Pride of Haarlem. The best old rose color 
Darwin Tulip. Most of the flowers have 
six or more petals giving them a semi¬ 
double form. 25c doz., $1.75 per 100. 
Margaret. Beautiful globular flowers of 
soft, blush rose. 25c doz., $1.35 per 100. 
Clara Butt. Exquisite shade of soft, clear 
pink. 25c doz., $1.50 per 100. 
Baronne De La Tonnaye. Large, rosy 
carmine flowers superbly formed and re¬ 
taining their brilliancy to the last. 25c 
doz., $1.50 per 100. 
Collection of twelve each (48 bulbs), 
$1.00 postpaid 
Mixed Darwin Tulips. 75 bulbs for $1.00, 
postpaid. 
Daffodils 
Victoria, the variety shown below. 
Yellow trumpet, with white perianth 
strong “double nose" bulbs producing 
two flowers. 50c per doz., $3.00 per 100. 
postpaid. 
Trumpet Varieties Mixed. 20c per doz., 
$1.25 per 100, postpaid. 
Our Autumn Bulb Catalogue with 
full information relative to the 
culture of Darwin and Breeder 
Tulips, Narcissus, etc., mailed on 
request . 
Arthur T. Boddington Co. 
Dept. H. 128 Chambers St., N. Y. 
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The Indoor Bulb Garden 
(Continued from page 24) 
The whole should be surrounded 
with stale, not fresh, coal ashes, sand 
or cocoanut fiber refuse. Apart from 
an occasional inspection, and water¬ 
ing if the soil appears to be getting 
dry, the bulbs are left aloue until 
growth is well on the way and the 
pots filled with new white roots. The 
time for this to occur will naturally 
depend upon the earliness or other¬ 
wise of the varieties used. When 
the top growth is from 1" to 3" 
high and the soil nicely filled with 
roots, the bulbs are removed from 
the sand or ashes and gradually in¬ 
ured to light. By the time the tops 
are green they may be fully exposed 
in the window, where they will in due 
course develop their flowers. High 
temperatures, unless regulated by a 
professional gardener, ought not to 
be attempted, especially with tulips. 
An important point also to remember 
is that the bulbs, when growth is 
active (that is, when removed to the 
window), need plenty of water; 
failure to supply it results in what 
gardeners term “blind plants.” Bulbs 
grown in soil in pots can, after flow¬ 
ering, he gradually ripened off, and 
subsequently be planted in the open 
border or special bed. 
The method of growing bulbs in 
howls of fiber is very simple, clean 
and pleasant. But the bulbs after¬ 
ward are practically useless, and 
might as well be thrown away. The 
glazed bowls used for bulbs are with¬ 
out a drainage hole in the bottom, 
and those of a dull green color are 
the best, though blue and white china 
bowls look charming filled with min¬ 
iature hyacinths of those colors. Or¬ 
dinary cocoanut fiber refuse, with 
some charcoal chips added to it, is 
all that is necessary. It is safe, 
though not entirely necessary, to place 
about a ZA layer of broken char¬ 
coal at the bottom of the bowl before 
putting in the fiber. The latter must 
be pleasantly moist—not sodden. The 
bulbs are placed fairly close together 
—about an inch between each two— 
and packed round with fiber, as ad¬ 
vised with the soil for pots. 
Another Scheme 
Instead, however, of plunging the 
bowls in sand or ashes, they may be 
stood in a dark cellar or airy cup¬ 
board, almost anywhere, in fact, where 
they can he kept dark and away from 
frost until top and root growth are 
active. But they must have moisture 
in the fiber, and this must be care¬ 
fully watched. It is so easy to over¬ 
water in the early stages of their 
growth—there is little danger of this 
later on—yet the fiber must not on 
any account be allowed to become 
dry. When taken from the darkness 
the treatment of bulbs growing in 
fiber is similar to that advised for 
those in pots. Apart from tulips, 
hyacinths and daffodils, there are 
many other kinds of bulbs suitable for 
growing in pots and bowls, such, for 
instance, as snowdrops, crocuses and 
the dainty little scillas and chiono- 
doxas; but the novice would do well 
to master first of all the hyacinths 
and desirable daffodils. 
The beautiful Darwin tulips are 
charming when grown in pots or 
bowls, but they will not stand hard 
forcing and are scarcely suitable for 
the amateur to try. 
Miniature hyacinths are charming 
little flowers and to most people much 
more pleasing than the large Dutch 
varieties. The spikes are small and 
the flowers more thinly disposed so 
that the stiffness often objected to 
in the larger kinds is eliminated. 
How Much Land Is Enough? 
(Continued from page 45) 
sible for the owner to do, if the own¬ 
er does not work every spare mo¬ 
ment. That is, he can cut the grass, 
trim edges, keep everything in ex¬ 
quisite order and well groomed, in¬ 
cluding a few flowers—and that is 
all. If he fails in his one day, some 
week, away it all goes, looking down 
at the heels and neglected before his 
day comes around the next week. 
Nothing can get away from you so 
quickly as your dooryard. 
A Regular Gardener 
What a place must return in actual 
cash value, in order to balance the 
overhead, is not easy to estimate 
save in particular cases. The serv¬ 
ices of a gardener the year around 
may run from $40 to $60 a month, 
and many gardeners get a good deal 
more than the latter sum. One man 
is calculated as equal to the care of 
five acres, in agriculture; he might 
not be equal to the care of a single 
acre if that acre is greatly di¬ 
versified in its products, as an acre 
devoted exclusively to home making 
is apt to be. Of course, much de¬ 
pends upon the man, and his disposi¬ 
tion and ability to do; but it is taken 
for granted that only a willing and 
capable man retains the position. 
Under the usual circumstances of 
the home, one man should care for 
two or three acres, whereon all the 
family vegetables and fruits are 
grown. For a family of six, half 
an acre will provide all the vegetables 
needed throughout the year, except¬ 
ing potatoes. One quarter of an 
acre will supply these last. Three 
bearing trees of apples, the same of 
pears, peaches and plums, two or 
three of cherries, and thirty bushes 
of the small fruits, including cur¬ 
rants and gooseberries, will fur¬ 
nish all the fruit for summer eating 
and preserving for winter. To these 
a quarter of an acre more may lie 
allowed, though they will not all be 
planted together within that space. 
Space is conserved by border plant¬ 
ings of fruits, very often. 
Add to the one acre thus required 
as much as you wish for the house 
grounds—quarter or half an acre is 
enough to ensure pleasant lawn 
spaces, and shrubs and flowers on a 
modest scale—and the total amount 
of land needed is an acre and a half. 
If chickens are to he added to the 
menage, allow a half acre more—and 
two acres is arrived at as the amount 
required to support the office of gen¬ 
eral man on full time. 
One man can keep a place of two 
acres, allotted as here suggested, in 
most perfect order, or else he is not 
the man for the job. He will be 
busy from the time he begins in the 
morning until he stops at night; and 
he must have his work so laid out that 
not a movement nor a minute is lost. 
But if it is so systematized, there is 
absolutely no reason why anything 
should be neglected at any time. I 
will not admit, however, that this 
same man should be expected to care 
for flowers to any extent; the flower 
garden on this particular kind of 
place, employing only one man, must 
depend upon the owner, or some 
member of the family, for its daily 
care. To plant, cultivate, tend, spray 
and gather the vegetables and fruits 
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