English Bulbs Another product coming into its own, late but
surely, is the English bulb. The Royal Horticultural Society, which has done much to encourage this more or less new and rapidly increasing industry, is to hold an original, and a very useful, show at the fortnightly meeting on August 28th and 29th. The exhibitors are to display dry bulbs only, without any floral attractions. Gardeners of all sorts should be interested. The date is the right one for preparing to plant spring-flowering bulbs, and the least expert can distinguish a good bulb from an indifferent. Its bulk and body proclaim the coming flower more certainly than in Francis Thompson's wonderful simile, "As harboured in the vine
Hang the gold skins of undelirious wine."
Incidentally, one at any rate of the Spalding bulb growers circulates a coloured catalogue that is a triumph of colour- printing. If his bulbs are as good as his catalogue, he is a long way in front of the best producers of Haarlem and other Dutch districts.
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