. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE EASTEE LILY IX jSTORTHERN CLIMATES. 17 The bulbs should be separated into four or five sizes before plant- ing. In spring plantings of the seedling bulbs out of the house, two sizes will probably be sufficient; for in this case the bulbs will be large, with very little, if any, propagation. They will be simply the large seedling bulbs. Assuming that the rows are uniformly 6 to 8 inches apart, the larger of these sizes can be planted about seven to the row and the smaller nine to the row. They should be uniformly sp
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. THE EASTEE LILY IX jSTORTHERN CLIMATES. 17 The bulbs should be separated into four or five sizes before plant- ing. In spring plantings of the seedling bulbs out of the house, two sizes will probably be sufficient; for in this case the bulbs will be large, with very little, if any, propagation. They will be simply the large seedling bulbs. Assuming that the rows are uniformly 6 to 8 inches apart, the larger of these sizes can be planted about seven to the row and the smaller nine to the row. They should be uniformly spaced and set up. After the seedlings have been grown outside for a year, however, there will be a large propagation of bulblets, and conse- quently it will be better to make four or five Fig. 8.—Bulbs bciny planted in a Uuteh bed. In starting the planting on the bed plan, it is necessary to line out the beds carefully with taut lines, marked off by running a spade down 2 or 3 inches along the line and scraping the soil toward the center of the bed from either side. The soil is then thrown out of the first bed to a depth of about 4 inches and the bottom raked to a level. The bulbs are then set and spaced, as already described. The soil from the opening of the second bed is used to cover the bulbs in the first, and so on to the end of the plat. Figure 8 shows this method of planting the narcissus on Puget Sound and illustrates the opera- tion very well. After the first year there will be more than two sizes, as there will be plenty of stem bulblets at the next digging. It will then be neces- sary to plant a larger number to the row. One may have 14 and 21. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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