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of blue blossoms; the golden garlic (A Ilium Moly), 

 which is about the last of the spring bulbs to bloom, 

 and Pushkinia libanotica. The best star-of-Beth- 

 lehem (Ornithogallum arabicum), the firecracker 

 plant (Brodiaea coccinea), the netted iris (I. re- 

 ticulata) and the "hardy gloxinia" (Incarvillea 

 Delavayi) are fairly hardy in the North, with pro- 

 tection. 



Winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) responds 

 less readily to culture in the North than any of 

 the bulbs mentioned none of which calls for any 

 favoring other than as stated in a few instances. 

 Sometimes there is a moist place in a garden under 

 a shrub; there, perhaps, the green foliage tufts 

 and yellow blossoms will show themselves in March 

 or April. The bulbs are cheap. 



With coddling still more spring bulbs are pos- 

 sibilities in the North, but are materially less risky 

 propositions to the southward. Several of the 

 windflowers that are so beautiful in England every 

 spring, such as Anemone coronaria, A. fulgens, A. 

 St. Brigid, A. hortensis, A. blanda, A. apennina 

 and A. nemorosa Robinsoniana, are among these 

 so are Gladiolus Colvillei, the early species that 

 is forced in quantities; the little known but very 

 beautiful deep blue Ixiolirion tataricum, the showy 

 red amaryllis-like Habranthus pratensis and the 

 gorgeous single and double forms of Asiatic ranun- 

 culi. Here is a list that ought to be drawn on 

 more in the nearer South. 



All of the spring bulbs, of course, are planted 



