NECESSARY FOR BULBS. 



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Bulbs of the more choice varieties are better at- 

 tended to if they can be placed in beds or compart- 

 ments by themselves; for they are more easily 

 sheltered from frost and rain when in a body. 

 The eye, also, is more delighted by the beautiful 

 variety en masse. Their favorite soil, too, can be 

 composed and preserved for them more exclusively, 

 unexhausted by the roots of larger plants around 

 tliem. Some of the commoner sorts can be plant- 

 ed out in patches, to add to the gay appearance of 

 the borders, among the spring flowers. 



Mariagons, orange lilies, and bulbs of tall growth, 

 should never be planted among the smaller tribe ; 

 their large bulbs would exhaust the soil, and weak- 

 en the smaller llowers. They look very handsome 

 in borders and plots, placed near or in their centre. 



LIST OF BULBOUS A.VD TUBEROUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 



Amaryllis, comprisiiiw the an- 

 tuinnal yellow IVarcissus 



Spring? ditto 

 Crocus renins, or spring-flovv- 

 eriii^ crocus 



Common yellow 



Large yellow 



Yellow, with black stripes 



White 



White, with blue «tripes 



Blue with white stripes 



Deep blue 



Light blue 



While, with purple bottom 



Scotch, or black and white 

 striped 



Creaui-colored 

 Autumnal floirtrino Crocus, 

 of the following varie- 

 ties: — 



True saffron crocus, with 



bluish flower and golden 

 stigma, which is the saf- 

 fron 



Common autumnal crociLS, 

 with deep blue flowers 



With light blue flowers 



Many flowered 

 Snowilrnp, the small spring 

 flowering 



CmniiKtn single 



Double 

 Leucdjum, or great summer 

 .snowdrop 



Great summer snowdrop, 

 with angular stalks; a 

 foot high, and two or 

 three ilowers in each 

 sheath 



Taller great sjiowcrop, 

 with many flowers 



