THE SELECTION AND CHARACTERISTICS OF SORTS WHICH YIELD 
THE BEST RESULTS DURING THE FIRST AND SUCCEEDING 
SEASONS-A BULB GARDEN PLAN ADAPTABLE TO ANY GARDEN 
by Grace Tabor 
Photographs by N. R. Graves, Chas. Jones and others 
F OR the gardening novice, bulbs hold a richer and a snrer 
promise than any other garden material in the world. Fail¬ 
ure with them is almost impossible, and superlative success is 
almost certain; for the bulbs themselves do all the work—or have 
been doing it, during the past summer and several summers past, 
over in Holland. The wise Dutch growers have helped them, to 
be sure; but, after all. their part is not so great. The bulb’s the 
thing, and you will do well to have it in numbers. 
The price, by the way, is the one phase of the whole matter 
which is most likely to be the undoing of the planter who is un¬ 
familiar with bulbs and bulb life processes. They seem to be so 
much cheaper in one catalogue than they are in another that sure¬ 
ly the higher price is exorbitantly boosted, he reasons. And then 
he probably follows the very natural — and proper—impulse not 
to buy where fancy prices prevail. 
But with bulbs, prices are not what they seem; at the lower 
The scillas are delicately formed 
and adapted to naturalizing 
The poet’s narcissus is an old 
favorite and well worth while 
Double jonquils are as fragrant 
as they are desirable in form 
Do you know the charm of the 
early opening snowdrops? 
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