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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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October, 1912 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 361 the cheaper Bulbs. These can usually be bought for twelve cents each, $1.00 per dozen, or $7.00 per hundred, fifty at hun- dred rates, which is the more economical way to purchase. For naturalizing in the grass nothing is prettier than the little Grape Hy- acinths — Muscaria Botryoides — which grow about six inches high and resemble erect bunches of tiny blue or white grapes. The Grape Hyacinth A bed of Tulips is one of the few plants that will grow under Pine trees, and it is useful in covering barren spots. This and the well- known Star of Bethlehem may, when once planted, be trusted to take care of themselves. The latter, however, re-
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appropriately grown among the smaller attractive Azaleas. The list of double Tulips is much more restricted, but the quality of such varieties leaves little to be desired in such Bulbs as the Salvator Rosa, Duke of York and the like. Many of these double flowers are delightfully fragrant and the list here given may be useful in making a choice. White: Rose Blanche, and La Candeur (pure white); Pink: Murillo; Red: Titian (bordered yellow) \Rose: Tournesoil (scarlet-edged yellow), Salvator Rosa, Duke of York, and Lord Beaconsfield; Yellow. Yellow Rose and Tournesoil Yellow; Bronze Orange : Toreador; Scarlet: RexRubrorum and Imperator Rubrorum. The Rose Blanche is an eight-inch variety, the Murillo, Toreador, Tournesoil and Tournesoil Yellow are nine-inch varieties and the others reach a height of ten inches. Tulip beds and borders should be given a light top-dress- ing of stable litter late in the Fall or after the ground freezes, and remove the most of this early in Spring, as soon as growth begins, retaining enough to protect from severe frost. If all the litter is left on, the new growth will force itself up through and be injured when an attempt is made to remove it. It is a good plan to leave a quantity of litter convenient for replacing at the approach of a cold wave, this can be done by planning for a mulch box. Hyacinths require practically the same treatment as do Tulips, but should be planted farther apart— from six to eight inches and much deeper—from three to four inches. They are better left in permanent beds from year to year, growing some light rooted annual in the beds as a cover during the Summer months, Pansies, Forget-Me-Nots, Schizan- thus and the like making excellent cover. The single Hyacinths make finer spikes and a better display than do the double ones and are, in conse- quence, generally preferred to the former. In the following list will be found all that could be desired: Bar- oness von Thuyl, a beautiful, delicate pink; Charles Dickens, an exquisite shade of pink; Lady Derby, one of the finest pink Hyacinths; Moreno, pink; Roi des Beiges, brilliant crim- son-scarlet, fine bedder; Baroness von Thuyl, pure white; Grandeur's a'Mer- veille, plush-white—the most popular Of this shade; La Grandesse, finest pure white, fine spike, immense bells; La Innocense, the most popular of the pure whites; Mme. Van der Hoop, pure white, very large bells; Mr. Plimsol, an excellent ivory-white; King of the Blues, blue—the fin- est of the deep-blue variety; Baron Von Thuyl, rich purplish blue, very rich; Czar Peter, light lavender blue; Grand Maitre, deep porcelain blue; Marie Rich, purplish blue, enormous spike; Queen of the Blues, clear silver azure blue, a grand sort; Ida, one of the best yellows; King of the Yellows, yellow; Odelisque, rich, deep yellow, and Yellow Hammer, fine spike and bells. In purchasing Hyacinths it pays to get the selected, first size Bulbs, as A mass of well-placed double Tulips always forms an exquisite color note in they will give far better results than and where the area permits one should plan such an arrangement

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