BULBS

This is a type of planting which can provide as many interestingflower effects as any annual, perennial, or shrub planting. It is thetype of planting that provides flowers at a period of the year from lateMarch until the latter part of May, when the garden and lawn areotherwise bare of flowers. The information concerning this group ofplantings covering the possible types to be used, the effects to be ob-tained, and the care of the mature plants, has not been so freely dis-tributed to the owners of our homes as it should have been. After themonotonous, uninteresting landscape presented by the lawn and gardenareas in the vicinity of residences during the long winter months, thesetouches of flower effects are of double value as an introduction to thepossibilities of the flowering shrubs and garden plants. So importantis this subject that an entire chapter of this book, Chapter VI, hasbeen devoted to the culture of bulbs.