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A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

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List of Bulbs: Clara

Chestnut (dark mahogany) Clara Butt (rose) Europa (light American beauty) Gretchen (pale pink) Clara Butt (rose) Crepuscule (lilac) { { Franz Hals (reddish heliotrope) Princess Juliana (American beauty) Dream (pale heliotrope) Yolande (soft rose) La Tulipe Noire (purple black) Reverend Ewbank (lavender) Europa (bright rose) BULBS E. BEST VARIETIES FOR FORCING. The following bulbs are good varieties for forcing. A few kinds (see Group b) will flower if kept in bowls of water with enough pebbles to hold them upright. a. Forcing in soil.

Tulips-early single:

Duc Van Tholl (various colours) Duchesse de Parma (crimson with yellow Farnecombe Sanders (fiery scarlet) margin) Chrysolora (yellow) Cottage Maid (pink) Flamingo (pink) Vermilion Brilliant (scarlet) Joost van Vondel (striped, red and white) Proserpine (deep rose with metallic petals) Medium-flowering tulips:

Thomas Moore (orange) Yellow Prince (yellow) White Swan (white) Rose Grisdelin (pink) Pottebakker (scarlet, yellow, and white) Couleur Cardinal (dark crimson) Double tulips for forcing:

Boule de Neige (white) Murillo (pink) Crown of Gold (yellow) Imperator Rubrorum (scarlet) Cottage Tulips:

Bouton d'Or (chrome yellow) Carnation (white margined carmine) Elegans alba (creamy white) Fairy Queen (rosy lilac) Inglescombe Pink (soft rosy pink) La Candeur (silvery white) Striped Beauty (silvery rose) Vitellina (primrose to creamy white) Darwin Tulips:

For late February or early March:

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