File:American homes and gardens (1912) (17534130294).jpg

Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar91912newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors:
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
well for Tulips. For where uniformity of planting is essential, it will be found a permanent planting I good plan to remove a couple of inches of the top soil, will think their use as a enrich the bottom soil with old manure or bone meal well border—three deep, worked in, cover this with an inch of sharp sand and mark for beds of hardy off on this either circles or straight lines—the last is more Perennials gives most practical and the resulting planting will be in circle and satisfactory results place a Tulip at the intersection of each cross lines. Cover as they require the these with an inch of soil and then, before finishing the cov- minimum of care ering, while yet the tips of the Bulbs are visible, fill in the and yield the maxi- intervening spaces with Crocus or Scillas. These will mum results and bloom a couple of weeks before the Tulips and make a brighten up the beds lovely bed, or alternate the white Crocus and blue Scillas at a time when the and see how charming they are. Perennials are just In selecting Tulips for solid bed, careful attention should getting ready to be given to harmonious arrangement of color, to the height show what they can of the flowers and the season of bloom. Most catalogues do. The Bulbs now give the season of bloom, height, and indicate such should be set about varieties as are especially suited for bedding. It goes with- six inches apart each out saying that yellow and red is not a happy combination, A Narcissus border way and about once though it seems to appeal to some people, but white may and a half their depth below the top of the soil—that is always be combined with any of the other colors and adds there should be that depth of soil above the top of the Bulb, brilliancy to the display. The following list of desirable This is an excellent rule to follow in the planting of any varieties which bloom at the same time and are of uniform Bulbs about which there is doubt. In planting in solid beds height will be of assistance to many: White: Due Von Thol, L'Immacule, L'Reine; Yellow: Mon Tresor; Scarlet: Vermilion Brilliant, and Due Von Thol. The white and the red Due Von Thol varieties reach a height of eight inches and should be used for edging the beds of the other varieties named above as they are ten-inch plants. The following are medium early Tulips recommended: White: Joost Van Vondel, White Hawk, Potte- bakker, Cottage Maid (suffused pink) ; and Princess Marianne (shaded rose) ; blush pink and white: Queen of the Netherlands. Pink: Pink Beauty, Rose Grisdeiin, and Pink Beauty; Rose: Proserpine, and Rose Luisante. Scarlet: Sir Thomas Lipton, Belle Alliance, Pottebakker Scarlet, Cramoise Brilliant, Crimson King, Prince of Austria (orange tinge) ; and Duchesse de Parma (bordered orange). Red: Potte- bakker Scarlet. Yellow: Golden Queen, Chrysolora, Pottebakker Yel- low, and Yellow Prince. These reach from ten to twelve inches in height except the Rose Grisdeiin, which is eight inches in height. This last is fine for borders. Following these in season there are a few such late blooming Tulips as the Couleur Cardinal (Cardinal) reaching a height of ten inches, and Prince of Austria and Thomas More, both orange-scarlet twelve-inch plants. Then there are the various Bybloomers—Bizarres, Gesnerianas, and tall-growing Tulips. These do best, I think, in clumps and among shrubbery where there is some foundation to cover a somewhat lanky growth. The low-growing Deutzia Gracilis, Anthony Waterer For the garden of ample proportions late flowering Tulips may be planted amid early flowering Spiraea and the like, are good fore- Perennials, which will provide an admirable succession of bloom grounds for these sorts or they may be
Text Appearing After Image:
'

Note About Images