Fall Edition of Vaughan’s Gardening Illustrated, Chicago and New York 29 


HE ADVANCED gardener knows that 
bulbs supply the dominant flowers for the 
first two months of the garden season, the 
time when garden beauty is most precious, 
and most rare. 
The beginner finds that bulbs give him the 
surest and easiest success, of any flowers. 
Provided he plants quality bulbs, and follows 
a few simple rules, he can hardly fail to pro- 



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duce blossoms of the first rank on his first 
attempt. Not even cultivation is required for 
this harvest. No insects will prey upon the 
flowers of spring bulbs, and they have no dis- 
eases to require expert treatment. 
Spring-flowering bulbs prolong the garden 
season by a month at least. Not only that, but 
among them are flowers which even did they 
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THIS CHART INDICATES THE DEPTH AND 
To Introduce to You the Variety, Beauty and 
Easy Culture of Spring Flowering Bulbs, We 
Offer these Bargain Combinations, Planned to 
Give Continuous Bloom. 
come in June, when gardens are crowded with 
glory, no gardener would be without. 
The purchase of spring-flowering bulbs 
should not be considered an expense, to be 
charged to one garden season. It is an invest- 
ment. A stock of bulbs has been known to pro- 
duce flowers in the same garden for a century. 
Even the labor of lifting bulbs after flowering 
may be dispensed with. All do excellently 
when left undisturbed year after year. This 
practice, indeed, is recommended for the daffo- 
dils. And tulips will suffer small loss if allowed 
to remain in a bed where they have done 
well, year after year. For this, plant them 
deeper, 8-inches in clay, 10-inches in sandy 
soil. 
HOW TO PLANT BULBS 
Plant all fall bulbs as soon as they can be 
obtained, and you are 
willing to disturb estab- 
lished beds. Daffodils 
and hyacinths benefit es- 
pecially from early plant- 
ing. Tulips should go in 
when the leaves of trees 


37 fall, so they have a season 
69 ~—~— of growth before the 
18 = ground freezes. 
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156 delay, all fall bulbs can 
190 : be planted as late as the 
see ground can be worked. 
A light mulch placed 
over the proposed plant- 
ing spot will keep the frost out, if delay is un- 
avoidable. A mulch over late planted bulbs 
placed after the ground is frozen, will prevent 
thawing and heaving. 
A complete plant food applied to the soil at 
the rate of 5 pounds to 100 square feet, raked 
into the top soil after planting, will benefit 
the bulbs. 
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LILIUM CANDIDUM 
12 in. APART 




1 5 Bulbs, 3 Each of 5 Dif- 
~ ferent Varieties, $] 25 
prepaid - - 
3 Scillas, 3 Grape Hyacinths, 3 GiantTulips, 
3 Hardy Daffodils, 3 Spring Snowflakes, 
15 bulbs in all, for $1.00, postpaid. 
36 Bulbs, 6 Each of 6 Dif- 
ferent Varieties, $9.15 
prepaid - - 
We will ship the following, prepaid. ( 
6 Scillas, 6 Grape Hyacinths, 6 Giant 
Tulips, 6 Hardy Daffodils, 6 Spring Snow- 
flakes, 6 Lilium Tenuifolium—36 bulbs. 
7 © Bulbs, 12 Each of 6 Dif- 
~ “I ferent Varieties, $3.25 
prepaid - - - - 5 4 
12 Scillas, 12 Grape Hyacinths, 12 Giant 
Tulips, 12 Hardy Daffodils, 12 Spring 
Snowflakes, 12 Lilium Tenuifolium— 
72 bulbs. 
l 56 Bulbs, 24 Each of 6 
Different Varieties, 
12 of aseventh variety, $7 7 
prepaid - - | : l 1 
24 Scillas, 24 Grape Hyacinths, 24 
Giant Tulips, 24 Hardy Daffodils, 24 Spring 
Snowflakes, 24 Lilium Tenuifolium, 12 
Ornithogalum Umbellatum—156 bulbs. 
Use no manure with bulbs, unless it has 
been thoroughly rotted and can be spaded 
into the ground several months previous to 
planting. 
If planting with a dibber, take care that the 
bulb rests on the soil and is not ‘“‘hung’’—that 
is, left with a hole beneath it caused by the 
point of the dibber. 
VAUGHAN’'S BULB PLANTING CHART 



SNOWDROPS 
31n. APART 
GRAPE HYACINTHS 
3 1n. APART 













® NARCISSUS , 
ay 6 to 8 in. APART yi 
EARLY TULIPS 
Sto6in. APART 



LATE TULIPS 
5toBin. APART 




HARDY LILIES 
12 to 15 in. APART 
DISTANCE APART VARIOUS FALL BULBS SHOULD BE PLANTED 
