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Haarlem 
Amazingly beautiful; fiery cardinal-red. De- 
cidedly the outstanding variety of all. Flowers 
immense with large blue-black base edged with 
white. One of the most amazingly beautiful 
reds ever known. About 21 inches. (Darwin.) 
PRICES: 2 for 45c; 4 for 72c; 6 for $1.00; 
12 for $1.80; 18 for $2.60; 24 for $3.40. 
NOTE: You get 12 City of Haarlem in the 
Kellogg’s Dream O’ Beauty Tulip Collection 
on back cover. 








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Tulip known. 

How to Grow Them 

How to Plant 
Once you have prepared your soil properly, and 
have provided proper drainage, the actual plant- 
ing of the bulbs is simple. The only warning is: 
Do not throw the bulbs into the trench haphaz- 
ardly. There is a top and bottom to each bulb, 
and they should always be planted bottoms down. 
Therefore, set each bulb in the trench individ- 
ually, and if necessary, press it slightly into the 
soil so that it will remain in position. The small 
pointed end of the bulb is the top. See picture 
on page 6. 
Next, fill in the trench with the earth that you 
have taken out. Leave a slight mound, as the 
ground will in time settle, and you will have a 
hollow if you do not. 
Also, after you have filled in, press the soil firmly 
to get away from any air pockets. In fact, it might 
be advisable to fill in about half of the dirt, then 
firm the soil with your feet, then fill in the rest. 
Few things are more dangerous than these air 
pockets, as they allow the bulbs to dry out; there- 
fore, this firming of the soil is important. 
. Time to Plant 
It is impossible to say that your bulbs should be 
planted on any certain date, or in any certain 
week, in any particular part of the country, but 
naturally they are planted later in the southern 
states than in the northern states. In the northern 
states, you do have to plant ahead of freezing, 
because planting would be very difficult after a 
frozen crust has formed. You could break through 
the crust, and plant with good results, but who 
wants to go to that much labor? 
Actually, bulbs can usually be planted soon after 
you receive them from the nursery. Some will 
argue that you should plant as late as possible to 
avoid mice; but before the ground freezes, 
mice will find plenty of other tidbits that are 
much easier to get at than your Tulip bulbs, 
after they are planted. Then after the ground 
freezes, they will have even more difficulty, and 
anyway they will always seek a new inside home 
after the first freeze, and cease to be a hazard. 
They are a risk where mole runways are present, 
because the runways often give them a nice easy 
subway through which they can travel to the 
bulbs. They are also dangerous if you mulch too 
early, for then the mulching makes a nice cozy 
home for them, at the same time that it protects 
your ground from freezing: and with other food 
made unavailable to them by freezing, they may 
be able to reach your bulbs. Mulch after the first 
freezing, and mice will seldom bother. 
Some claim that moles eat bulbs, and some say 
that they do not. In any event, they can make 
things easy for the mice, as above outlined: and 
if their runways run among the bulbs, they may 
cause drying out with consequent casualties. 
The one good reason that we might give against 
too early planting of bulbs is that warm fall 
weather and warm fall rains may start growth. 
In such conditions, they will not come through 
the winter nearly as well as in a dormant condi- 
tion. Actually, a good time to plant is about three 
or four weeks ahead of the first expected freeze. 
Gophers and squirrels may also at times bother 
Tulip bulbs, but the same controls apply to them 
as to moles and mice. 
(Continued on page 10) 
(How-to-Grow Index—page 22.) 
