A SINGLE COMPARATIVE TEST OF HOME-GROWN VERSUS IMPORTED 
BULBS ON THE DEPARTMENT GROUNDS, WASHINGTON, D. C. f 
SPRING OP 1911. 
The rows to the right which show -the numbers 50 on the 
lapels, were grown at the United States Bulb Farm, at Bell- 
ingham, Washington. These flowered seven days earlier than 
the Holland grown bulbs, unnumbered, on the left. 
One-row tests of fifty bulbs each of seven varieties, 
and a check row of fifty imported bulbs in the same seven 
varieties, were planted. In every case the home-grown bulbs 
flowered from seven to ten days earlier than the imported 
bulbs . 
