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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



•one, and from which many of the pre- 

 sent kind have sprung. 



The colors comprise the most brilliant 

 of orange, scarlet, and vermilion tints 

 upon yellow and orange grounds, in- 

 cluding many shades, from white and 

 rosy blush, and salmon rose tints, to a 

 salmon and nankin; from blush white, 

 with purplish throat and marginal 

 streaks of pink, to light rosy salmon 

 grounds with flakes of deep carmine. 

 'Their period of flowering may readily 

 be extended from July to September, 

 by planting at separate times, from 

 March or April to June. The earliest 

 planted, however, should be the only 

 ones from which the stock of bulbs are 

 raised, as, although it does not materially 

 affect the flowering by a late planting, 

 it does not give time to perfect a large 

 healthy bulb. 



Ordinarily the simple increase of the 

 bulb will be from two to three fold, 

 which except in cases of great scarcity 

 of them or new varieties, will answer 

 all purposes, and such increase is strong 

 enough to flower the next year. But 

 in case of new varieties or a desire to 

 get a large stock of any kind, the small 

 bulblets found at the bottom of the 

 bulb on taking up in the fall, are care- 

 fully preserved, and the next spring 

 sowed in drills like unto seed, two or 

 three inches apart and a foot in the 

 rows, where during summer they will 

 have made bulbs from the size of a 

 hazel to that of a hickory nut. 



A few of these will flower the fol- 

 lowing summer and all the succeeding 

 one by this method. A stock can be 

 very rapidly increased with some kinds ; 

 however, it will often happen that the 

 choicest or best variety is a poor crop- 

 per of the bulblets. New varieties are 

 the result of seed crossed with dis- 

 similar kinds. Where the frost is not 

 too severe or when snow keeps the 

 frost from going deep in the soil, many 

 of the kinds will often winter out of 



doors, but to secure the finest stalks 

 and individual flowers they should be 

 taken up in the fall, as soon as the 

 frosts have destroyed the foliage, dried 

 off so that the bulb frees readily from 

 the stem, packed away in a moderately 

 dry drawer or bag — kept from freezing, 

 and planted again the ensuing spring. 

 If left out of doois, of course the bulbs, 

 by the natural increase, get crowded 

 for room and a struggle for existence 

 takes place, and a quantity of medium 

 flowers is the result, instead of a stately 

 stalk with very large individual flowers 

 of the clearest and most distinct color. 

 We have known them quite success- 

 fully grown as green house plants, 

 mainly, however, for cut flowers. They 

 may be had this way in early winter 

 by retarding the planting of the old 

 bulbs until July, or in late winter, by 

 the planting of the tall ripened bulbs 

 before Christmas. — Edgar Sanders, in 

 Prairie Farmer. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH PARIS GREEX 

 AND LONDON PURPLE IN THE 



APPLE ORCHARD. 

 Prof. S. A. Forbes read an interest- 

 ing paper at a meeting of the Illinois 

 State Horticultural Society, detailing 

 some experiments made with Paris 

 Green in the ratio of one and one half 

 ounces to four gallons, London purple 

 in half that quantity, and lime in in- 

 definite amount. It should be noted 

 that, owing to the scarcity of apples 

 and the abundance of apple insects, the 

 season was most unfavorable to the 

 success of the remedies. 



All the trees were thoroughly sprayed 

 eight times between June 9th and 

 September 3rd, the Paris green being 

 applied when the apples were the size 

 of small currants, and the lime and 

 London purple four days later. The 

 fallen apples were gathered six times 

 from July 16th onward, and those 

 remaining were picked as they ripened ; 



