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Oftentimes it becomes necessary in the renovating of the flower garden to dig up bulbs during the month of September or October. This is not desirable. Wherever it is foreseen that the soil in the flower beds must be spaded over and refertilized in the fall, all bulbsshould be removed in the late spring and stored in the usual mannerin a cool, dry, dark place in the cellar or shed until time to plant themin the fall. If it is necessary to dig up bulbs in the fall after some rootgrowth has started, then these bulbs should be taken up with some soilattached to the roots. They should be kept moist and replantedjust as soon as practical. They should never be left to dry out becauseafter the root growth has once started this drying out of the roots islikely to cause considerable injury to the bulbs. Only such perma-nent sorts as the tulips, especially the Darwins, narcissi, and the lilieswill as a rule repay the trouble entailed. Hyacinths seldom can bedepended upon for good bloom after the first display, in any event,and are thus hardly worth the trouble of replanting. In the easternstates and in the Middle West root growth in bulbs hardly ever startsbefore th'e latter part of September because the dry months of latesummer keep the bulbs dormant until the fall rains. When replantingof bulbs is done after September 15th, a good mulch of strawmanure put on to keep the frost out of the ground as long as possible isessential. |
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