374 HARDY AND HALF-HARDY GARDEN BULBS. 



They are all highly ornamental, and will thrive in any 

 rich, deep soil. They are impatient of being disturbed, 

 and when taken up should never be long kept out of the 

 ground. 



The same treatment is required for Frittelaria Persica, a 

 beautiful species, with glaucous blue foliage, and a large 

 cluster of purplish flowers. 



FRITILLAKIA MELEAGEIS is the pretty little Guinea Hen 

 Flower ; there are also white varieties. The treatment 

 above described for the crocus will suit it perfectly ; it 

 flowers about the middle of May. 



ANEMONES and RANUNCULUS seldom do well in our cli- 

 mate under open culture ; our winters are. so long and wet 

 the tubers either sprout prematurely, and are killed, or rot in 

 the ground. The hundreds of packages sold each autumn, 

 at auction, are not worth the paper they are wrapped in. 



COLCHICUM-AUTUMNALE is a pretty bulb, with flowers 

 resembling a crocus, purple, white, striped, single and 

 double ; treat as a crocus. The peculiarity of the plant is, 

 that the flowers are produced late in autumn; and the 

 leaves appear, ripening the seed, in the following spring. 

 It is a very pretty and interesting plant. The bulbs are 

 very large, and when once planted should not be disturbed 

 There are also spring- blooming varieties. 



