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House & Garden 
The tulip garden of Mrs. F. G. Tollman, Wilmington, Dela¬ 
ware, is planted as a wide border around the outer edge of 
an oval lawn. A hedge affords a green background to the 
delicate tints of Clara Butts, white Stanley Picotees, pale 
rosy Flamingoes, the rich amethyst of Valentines and the 
neutral-toned hues of the lavender-blue Dreams-Uterpes 
THE RICH COLORS OF TULIP GARDENS 
In These Two Delaware Gardens One May Find Many Suggestions 
For This Autumn s Bulb Planting 
ANTOINETTE PERRET 
O NE of the most pressing things in 
October (although now it seems afar 
off), is to prepare for the May-flower¬ 
ing tulips. Not that you really have to put 
them into the ground until 
the end of October, and if 
your garden is still abloom 
with heliotrope and zinnias 
or with chrysanthemums, 
you can even wait until the 
-tenth or twelfth of Novem¬ 
ber. It’s the planning that 
•takes time, the endless 
working up and correcting 
■of your color scheme and 
the grouping and re-group¬ 
ing of the bulbs by re¬ 
peatedly changing the little 
pencil dots that represent 
them on your garden plan. 
Tulips are such wonder¬ 
ful chalices of color, they 
■come in such a myriad of 
marvelous tones, that it is 
mo easy task to select them. 
It isn’t just a matter of or¬ 
dering a certain number of 
bulbs in your favorite pink or blue or yel¬ 
low, the way we used to buy our ribbons 
and sashes when we were girls. It's ever so 
much subtler than that, and, of course, that 
is just why it is so fascinating and why you 
give such an endless lot of time and thought 
to the delightful and responsive task. 
And how fascinating it is to have a host 
of suggestions to work upon. 
That is why I should like 
to tell you about Mrs. Bar¬ 
ton’s garden, for it is one 
of the most suggestive tulip 
gardens that I know, and 
of Mrs. Tallman’s garden, 
which also is rich in color 
suggestions. 
Tulip gardens are not 
unlike people. Sometimes 
you'll meet the loveliest 
garden, with tulips beauti¬ 
fully blended in their color¬ 
ings, an altogether satisfy¬ 
ing garden, but you’ll be 
able to take it in all at a 
single glance. A sentence 
would describe it. You 
like it. You have no fault 
to find with it. It is per¬ 
fect. But somehow it is 
not intriguing. Mrs. Bar- 
In the Tollman garden the tulip planting is brought directly up to the house. 
The tulip beds are edged with English daisies and pansies, which also serve 
for ground covers 
