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OSDS. 



3 and 4. Fine varieties of Tulips. 



5. 5. Double rocket Larkspur (sown in autumn). 



6. 6. Agathea caelestia. 



7. Scilla nutans (blue harebell). 



8. Feathered Hyacinths. 



9 and 10. Sweet scented Tulips. 



11. Double garden Tulips. 



12. Single gesneriana Tulips. 



13 and 14. Tritonia crocata, and Tritonia fenestra, kept in frames in 

 mid-winter. 



15. 15. 15. 15. Choice herbaceous plants not exceeding one foot six 



inches in height. 



16. 16. Hyacinths, double blue, plunged in pota. 



17. Hyacinths, double red, do. 



18 and 19. Hyacinths, single blue variety. 

 20 and 21. Single white Hyacinths. 

 22 and 23. Crocus vernus and biflorus. 

 24. Hyacinths, double red. 

 25 and 26. Tulips, double yellow. 



27. Hyacinths, double white. 



28. Muscari botryoides, (Grape Hyacinth). 



29. Oxalis caprina (kept in frames in mid-winter). 



30. Scilla verna (Spring Harebell). 



31. Muscari racemosum, the border of Viola tricolor in sorts. 



32. Hyacinths, double white. 



33. Double rose Larkspur. 



" As a general principle for regulating the plants in this 

 figure, the winter and spring flowers ought, as much as 

 possible, to be of sorts which admit of being in the ground 

 all the year : and the summer crop should be planted at 

 intervals between the winter plants. Or the summer crop, 

 having been brought forward in pots under glass, or by 

 nightly protection, may be planted out about the middle of 

 June, after the winter plants in pots are removed. A 

 number of hardy bulbs ought to be potted and plunged in 

 the beds in the months of October and November ; and 

 when out of bloom, in May or June, removed to the reserve 



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