Is it true that bone meal is the best flower bulb food?

Once upon a time, bone meal was considered an excellent flower bulb fertiliser, but times have changed! Most bone meal today has been so thoroughly processed that the essential nutrients have been literally boiled out. Spring-flowering flower bulbs actually need no fertiliser for their first season of blooming. A healthy Dutch flower bulb will already contain all the food it needs to support one season of spectacular growth. Flower bulbs that will be left in the ground to naturalise will benefit from well-rotted cow manure or special flower bulb fertiliser when the shoots first appear in spring and again the following autumn.