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TULIP TIME IN THE GARDEN 
Two Tulip Places Where the Spring Is 
Welcomed with a Kaleidoscope of Bloom 
MRS. FRANCIS KING 
President of the Women's National Agricultural and Horticultural Association 
ill which its owner has had to consider the 
exchequer—there is always for the intelli¬ 
gent to admire the added matter of ingenu¬ 
ity in spending. The able use of money 
bears witness to a high quality of mind; 
and in a garden cherished by its possessor 
reflections of the mind of that possessor are 
quickly seen. To apply the idea to the 
larger and more notable garden, it is also 
the judicious outlay of money which will or 
will not be apparent. The memory of every 
lover of gardening will serve him truly if he 
recalls on occasion the great, bleak, barren 
Jrhotograph by Beals 
Iris Hanks the ivall fountain whose stream falls into a basin made from 
half of an ancient millstone. Simplicity is the keynote here—simplicity 
coupled loith perfect taste and judgment 
AS time goes on the lover and observer 
lx. of gardening in its many forms can¬ 
not but notice the great appreciation of-in¬ 
terest in spring-flowering bulbs. Among 
these nothing has sprung more quickly into 
favor under the public eye than the late 
tulip. One may consider it as firmly settled 
in American gardening affections for many 
years to come. And when ultimately the 
grower of these beautiful subjects shall 
have tried all the varieties in our own deal¬ 
ers’ lists, all that he may have found in 
foreign ones—if he then sighs for more 
tulip worlds to conquer, 
think of the further joys 
that shall be his as he real¬ 
izes that from that point on 
he is a collector! 
He finds himself in the 
happy valley of a general 
knowledge of the tulip 
kingdom. He has now and 
only now qualified as one 
who may climb the pleasant 
slopes which lead to the 
knowledge of hybridizing, 
to that of the rarer vari¬ 
eties of tulip such as the 
Old English or Florists’. 
Membership in one or two 
of the small societies of 
enthusiasts in special tulips 
should now be open to him, 
and one of the lower sum¬ 
mits of tuhp satisfaction is 
attained. 
Tulip Attractions 
Among the many attri¬ 
butes which endear this 
bulb to the gardener is its 
adaptabilty for use in small 
plots or gardens. Brilliant 
effects can be had in spaces 
almost absurdly small if 
spring flowers are used. 
How these minute squares 
of color catch and delight 
the eye in spring! And 
this is not only because gay 
color is welcome then. 
When a small and simple 
garden is successful—one 
gardens of his visits, gardens on which for¬ 
tunes have been spent and from which he 
could only turn sadly away. And it is also 
true that with some fine exceptions the pub¬ 
lic gardens of our country are open to a like 
criticism by the fair-minded. 
On a Pennsylvania Hillside 
There is in Pennsylvania not far from its 
great eastern city, in a country-side of 
gentle beauty so like the Sussex Downs that 
one often fancies himself in England, one of 
these charming smaller gardens on a hill¬ 
side. A constant and 
changing beauty in flowers 
marks it, but in May, with 
all the freshness of the 
spring about, it is a flash¬ 
ing jewel with its tulips 
and abundance of other ef¬ 
fective low-growing spring 
flowers. 
On a day in mid-May 
we descend from a brick 
paved terrace shadowed by 
a great pine, to a gentle 
slope of turf toward this 
little garden, enclosed by a 
4' hedge of clipped privet. 
On the right, still below 
the sloping ground, an old 
stone spring-house is seen, 
hung with clouds of laven¬ 
der wistaria. White lilacs 
in full beauty flank the 
garden gate—a picket gate 
set in a white archway 
which supports a mass of 
rambler rose foliage at its 
freshest and best. 
Through the green and 
white entrance we pass into 
a dazzling garden on two 
levels, turf-walked, privet- 
hedge d, cedar-accented, 
framing a most delicate 
and unstudied effect of 
spring color in flowers. 
The gateway is halfway up 
the slope of the lower or 
perennial garden, and as 
we turn to the right we 
see, b e 1 o w the retaining 
