436 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



FLOWERS AND THEIR CULTURE. 



BULB CULTURE. 



In our last issue we gave the methods of treating hyacinths, tulips y 

 narcissus, jonquils, amaryllis and crocuses, but the list of interesting 

 bulbs is long. We will give a few more that amateurs or lovers of 

 flowers should try: 



FREESIA REFRACT A ALBA. 



Some think this the most beautiful and the easiest to grow of all 

 winter flowering bulbs. They are prized for the delightful fragrance of 

 their delicately colored flowers, which, when cut, will remain in good 

 condition in water a long time, a week or more. One plant is sufficient 

 to perfume a large room. Its cultivation is simple ; it requires only to 

 be potted in October, to be watered sparingly at first and placed under 

 the benches in the green-house till they start to grow, or they can be 

 immediately placed in the sunny window and watered more as the 

 growth progresses. These bulbs sell for five cents apiece, or fifty cents 

 per dozen. 



LILY OF THE VALLEY. 



This is one of the most beautiful and admired of spring flowering 

 plants, and universally sought for its neat and chaste outline and deli- 

 cious odor. It is hardy and permanent for beds. It has become a 

 popular plant for forcing, which is easily done by planting the pips in 

 pots, from six to twelve in each, watering freely, keeping in a cool cel- 

 lar till they start to grow, when water freely and bring to the light- 

 They generally bloom in three or four weeks after planting. Florists 

 manage to have blooms almost the entire year by keeping the pips 

 dormant in ice boxes. They can be had at thirty -five cents per dozen. 



THE LILY. 



The name lily is the symbol of all that is fairest, finest, sweetest 

 and best in the world; eulogy itself can not climb higher or express 

 more. Even the Highest Teacher bade us " consider the lilies how 

 they grow." The number of varieties are almost without end; from 

 every juirt of the temperate and tropical world and of every color of 

 the rainbow, except, probably green. There are fully over 150 varieties 

 of lilies under cultivation. The best varieties come from Europe, India, 

 America and Japan. Among the finest varieties are the following; L. 

 Auratum (Golden Japan Lily), L. Can did um (Madonna Lily), pure, white 

 and sweet scented ; L. Speciosura, and a number of varieties are also 



