. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 8 BULLETIN" 191, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. all rows are therefore 6 inches apart. The only variation occurs in the number of bulbs set in the row. Large bulbs are set 7 to the row; the second size, 9 to the row; and the third, 11 to the row. (Fig. 3.) These are commonly set upright and one in a place. The fourth size is planted 14 to the row, seven clusters, or hills, of two each, the bulbs being placed close together in any position in which they hap- pen to fall. The fifth size is planted 21 to the row,
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. 8 BULLETIN" 191, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. all rows are therefore 6 inches apart. The only variation occurs in the number of bulbs set in the row. Large bulbs are set 7 to the row; the second size, 9 to the row; and the third, 11 to the row. (Fig. 3.) These are commonly set upright and one in a place. The fourth size is planted 14 to the row, seven clusters, or hills, of two each, the bulbs being placed close together in any position in which they hap- pen to fall. The fifth size is planted 21 to the row, seven clusters, or hills, of three each, the bulbs lying in any position. The sixth size is j)lanted like the last—five in each of seven clusters or hills. Still smaller sizes are strung along about 50 to a row without any attempt at clustering. In practice, the number of bulbs of the last two sizes is only approximate, no attempt being made to count them. In the case of very large bulbs of hyacinths or of the Emperor nar- cissus, which can not be planted without crowding seven to a 6-inch row, a devia- tion is made in the spacing and the bulbs are set on the mark and half way between, making the rows 9 inches apart. Occasionally, smaller sizes of bulbs are strewn broadcast on the bed. This method, while simplifying the planting, makes dig- ging much more difficult, for, instead of following each row across the bed with the digging tool, the operator must turn all the soil in the bed over to a sufficient depth to insure not cutting the bulbs and then must pick them out by hand. This slightly modified Dutch method has not been much followed in this country excejpt on the Pacific coast, and there it has recently been abandoned at Eureka, Calif., by Mr. Ward, who is experiment- ing with methods thought to be better adapted to the use of machin- ery. The bulbs there are set 2 inches apart in 2-foot rows. In the Virginia bulb region (and a similar practice is followed generally on
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