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BULB PLANTING, 1923 
Over 50,000 bulbs were planted in the Garden during 1923. 
The greater part, about 40,000, were distributed in grassy areas in 
various parts of the Garden to give a naturalistic effect. 
Five thousand Narcissus “ Emperor’ were used to extend the 
planting of this variety on the knoll southwest of the Laboratory 
Building. Ten thousand Poet’s Narcissus of an early blooming 
kind (Narcissus poeticus ornatus) were planted ‘on the border 
mound, among the collection of young nut trees, west of the 
“ White Oak’”’ circle. 
The Crocuses on the border mound opposite the Oleaceae have 
given visitors great pleasure during their blooming season in early 
spring during the past two years. This planting has been greatly 
extended by the addition of fifteen thousand crocus in the colors 
ute, striped blue, and yellow. 
The Winter Aconite, Eranthis hyemalis, is one of the earliest of 
the spring “bulbs” to bloom. It is not really a bulb, ‘although 
usually classed as such in seedmen’s catalogs, but has a tuberous 
rootstock. Three thousand of these dainty, buttercup-like flowers 
have been planted under the willows by the boulder bridge and 
should make a charming display next spring. 
3ecause of the relaxation, for a period, of the stringent regula- 
tions of the Federal Horticultural Board, prohibiting the importa- 
tion of many plants, we have been enabled to make a trial planting 
of the seldom seen (in this country) Guinea Hen Flower, fritil- 
laria Meleagris. A thousand of these delightful bulbs are planted 
in the grass north of the birch collection. 
The Feathered Hyacinth, Muscari comosum var. monstrosum, a 
form of Grape Hyacinth in which all the flowers are sterile, has 
been planted to the number of one thousand on the bank north of 
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the Magnolia triangle. 
Those who have seen the wonderful display made by the blue- 
bells naturalized under the trees in the Queen’s Cottage grounds 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will be:interested to know 
that the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has initiated,:on a small’ scale, 
a ‘similar effect by planting five thousand Scilla nutans major on 
the border mound north and south of the rock garden. 
