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DOUBLE PEONIES 
The exciting color of crocus, tulips, daffodils 
and other spring flowering bulbs is the most 
rewarding result of good planning. This 
spring, when all the bulbs are flowering is 
the time to make your selections for fall 
planting. Choose bulbs from named varieties 
for the most pleasing display of color. 
Planting time for these bulbs starts in Sep- 
tember and can continue into November, 
or as long as you can work the soil. 
Blooms develop from the strength stored 
in bulbs and tiny flowers are actually 
present when you buy them. 
To prepare a bed for your bulbs, fork or 
spade the soil about 8 inches deep, Mix 
one to two quarts of peatmoss, leafmold or 
other humus into each 18-inch planting area, 
Plant food must not touch the bulbs. Spread 
it in the bottom of the prepared hole or 
trench and cover with two inches of soil 
before setting the bulbs, 
If the soil is dry, water the area the day 
before you set the bulbs. If it is still pow- 
dery dry when you put in the bulbs, press 
the soil over the planted bulbs with the 
palm of your hands, then apply water in a 
ring outside the planted area. Don't plant 
bulbs where water stands. 
TULIP, 
Wm. Copeland 
There is an almost endless number of kinds 
and varieties of Tulips, Narcissus, Hyacinths 
and Crocus, and it’s important to know some 
of the names of those that will reward you 
with the biggest and most beautiful blooms. 
The Tulips and Narcissus listed below are 
all good*moderately priced and give a wide 
range of color. 
NARCISSUS 
Large trumpets: WHITE—Beersheba, Mrs, E. 
H, Krela; BICOLOR—Imperator; YELLOW— 
Golden Harvest, King Alfred. 
Medium trumpets: WHITE—Firetail, Lady 
Diana Manners; WHITE & YELLOW—Queen 
of the North, Bernardino; WHITE & ORANGE 
—Francisca Drake; YELLOW—Diana Kasner, 
W HITE—Actea, 
Poet’s Narcissus: 
Horace, Ornatus. 
Cluster Flowered: WHITE & YELLOW— 
Laurens Koster; ORANGE & WHITE—Gerani- 
um; YELLOW & GOLD—Helios; YELLOW & 
ORANGE—Admiration. 
Homer, 
Double Flowered: WHITE—Daphne; WHITE 
& YELLOW-—Irene Copeland; WHITE 
ORANGE — Cheerfulness; PRIMROSE & 
ORANGE—Twink, 
For Naturalizing: Emperor, Ornatus and Sir 
Watkins, 
TULIPS 
Single early: WHITE — Albion; PINK — 
Pink Beauty; YELLOW—Rising Sun; RED & 
YELLOW—Keizerskroon; ORANGE—De Wet; 
RED—Couleur Cardinal, 
Double Early: WHITE—Boule de Neige; 
WHITE & ROSE — Murillo; ROSE-PINK -— 
Peach Blossom; YELLOW-ORANGE—Cour- 
onne d’Or; SCARLET—Scarlet Cardinal, 
TULIP, Clara Butt 
& 
NARCISSUS 
Double Late: WHITE—Mt. Tacoma; ROSE- 
PINK—Eros; DARK RED—Uncle Tom, 
Cottage: WHITE—Carrara; LEMON YELLOW 
—Golden Harvest; PINK & BUFF—NMarijorie 
Bowen; DEEP PINK—Dido; GOLDEN YEL- 
LOW — Belle Jaune; SCARLET — Marshall 
Haig, 
Darwin: WHITE—Glacier; PINK—Clara Butt; 
YELLOW — Yellow Giant; CHERRY-ROSE — 
King George V; HELIOTROPE—The Bishop; 
SCARLET — Farncombe Sanders: RED — 
Eclipse; MAROON BLACK—La Tulipe Noire. 
Breeder: TERRACOTTA YELLOW — Prince 
of Orange; GOLD & TERRACOTTA—Cher- 
bourg; PURPLE, GiCOLDe— = louis ive 
PURPLE BRONZE—Cardinal Manning; COP- 
PER RED — Indian Chief; FLAME — Dillen- 
burg. 
Parrot: PINK & GREEN — Fantasy; BLUE 
HELIOTROPE—Blue Parrot; HELIOTROPE & 
LAVENDER—Gadelan; ORANGE & GREEN— 
Orange Favorite; YELLOW + Sunshine; 
SCARLET & BLACK—Red Champion. 
AFTER THEY BLOOM 
After flowering, the bulbs go to work on 
storing up food supplies that enable them 
to produce good flowers the following 
spring. In this food production, vigorously 
growing leaves are essential. A general-pur- 
pose fertilizer applied just after bloom will 
be helpful. So will good maintenance. 
