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A good example of tulip border planting. The 
plants are not too closely set, nor are they ag¬ 
gressively prominent in the general scheme of 
the surroundings 
suggestions are not so much of a criticism of 
what has been done, as a plea for what can 
be done and has not been done, except in 
individual cases. 
In a word, there is needed in the planting 
of bulbs a more general realization of the fact 
that they can be used just as freely, and for 
just as wide a variety of effects, as shrubs or 
perennials. 
Before making up your order for this fall, 
don't merely take up your bulb catalog and 
figure out how many bulbs you will need for 
{Right) An excellent example of bulbs used in 
a perennial border for early effect. Notice 
how their blossoms add character to the ar¬ 
rangement of the other plants 
In certain settings, bulbs are invaluable as con¬ 
trasts to the rest of the planting. Here Ouida 
and Rev. Ewbank tulips have been used in 
connection with evergreens 
a border 20' long and 4' wide or a lawn 
bed 10' in diameter, but go outdoors and 
make up your list somewhat according to the 
following plan. 
If you have no map of your place showing 
the general outline of the landscaping drawn 
to scale, make one. Such a map is useful 
for different purposes many times during the 
year. Stand on the porch, at the living room 
window, or whatever place may serve as the 
point from which your planting of shrubs, 
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Another case of justifiable formal bedding, 
bearing about the same relation to front-lawn 
bulb stars and circles that Georgian architec¬ 
ture does to houses of the jigsaw period 
