


And How To Grow Them 


A wooden frame three or four inches deep, 
with wire screen bottom is excellent—and 
easily made. You can leave the bulbs in these 
trays, or transfer them to porous sacks and 
hang them from the rafters. The sacks in 
which grocery stores often supply onions, 
potatoes and oranges are excellent. Picture 
page 12. It is also wise to dust bulbs thor- 
oughly with sulphur before storing. 

A further precaution: Hang them away from 
air currents, to prevent drying. 
At replanting time, seek a new piece of 
ground. You can take up the soil from your 
old bed and bring in new soil, or sterilize 
your old soil—but new ground is best. 
Watering 
g[eniRs: Hyacinths and Narcissi are not 
desert flowers, by any means, and water- 
ing will benefit them during the early spring 
and blooming season, if rainfall is light. But, 
after the leaves have died down, the bulbs 
are dormant, and watering is not necessary. 
In any event, when you do water, water 
thoroughly. Use a sprayer or hose with noz- 
zle set for a moderately fine spray, so the 
moisture can penetrate into the soil nearly 
as fast as it is applied. Water by the hour, 
not by the minute. 
bu DS 1OLr 
each variety of Narciss: 
also L’ Innocence 
this collection is 







@ 
\O4, 
You get all 
44 for only ...... 
Diseases and Insects 
Tulips, Narcissi and Hyacinths are reason- 
ably disease-free, but certain diseases and in- 
sects may bother them under certain condi- 
tions. Often diseases can be prevented, usual- 
ly they can be controlled. 
If you have started with good healthy stock 
in the beginning, as Mr. X did, you neéd 
take only a few precautions to prevent 
diseases. 
We suggest two things, both simple, as ols 
lows: 
(1) Keep weed growth down. Weeds are ex- 
cellent hosts for the very diseases that may 
affect your flowers, and they are excellent 
breeding places for insects which also may be 
dangerous. Clean out all fence corners, 
around old cisterns, old trees and other such 
spots. 
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This amazing flower 
dares to be differert. 
for where others clothe 

_' & bulbs of Mis. © 
R.40, Backhouse, 
ad “4 “bulbs of 
Beersheba, plus 4 
each of the other 
[Ol eyarie tres. Of 
Narcissi slested 
here, ia $929 
value, yours for 
only 
5.98 
Mrs. R. O. 
Backhouse 
themselves in white and shades of yellow, Mrs. R. O. Back- 
house decides on apricot and pink. The yellow and white 
ones are beautiful, we agree, but a pink one is prettier still. 
Mrs. R. O. Backhouse has a beautiful long, slim trumpet 
that is still more beautiful for its rare coloring: pale apricot 
at the base, shading to’ shell-pink at the delicately ruffled 
edges, and all framed by a delightful ivory white perianth. 
The flower is large and is borne on tall, straight stems. 
Long-lasting. Blooms with other Narcissi. PRICES: 1 for 
50c; 2 for 85c; 3 for $1.20; 4 for $1.55; 6 for $2.25. 


BEERSHEBA. (Below.) Large 
beautifully formed flower, pure 
white throughout, the trumpet 
is nicely flanged and the peri- 
anth is perfectly flat and well 
overlapping. Cooler, free-flow- 
ering and vigorous. PRICES: 
Ie for, 60c; 2° for. $1-05343 stor 
$1.50; 6 for $2.85; 12 for $5.55. 
See 
prices 
above. 
[15] 

L?INNOCENCE. A sweet Jon- 
guil type. Short, dark yel- 
low cups peeping out from 
the white perianth. PRICES: 
3 for 55c; 4 for 67c; 6 for 
Oeil 2) formoleo- ) Lon tor 
$2.49; 24 for $3.35. 
