TUBEROUS-ROOTED FLOWERS. 



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Reddish hairy martagon, 

 with leaves growing in 

 whorls round the stalk 



Great yellow, with pyra 

 midal flowers, spotted 



Purple, with dark spots, 

 and broad leaves in 

 whorls round the stalk, 

 or most common Turk s 

 cap 



White spotted Turk s cap 



Canada martagon, with yel 

 lowish large flowers spot 

 ted, and leaves in whorls 



Campscatense martagon, 

 with erect bell-shaped 

 flowers 



Philadelphia martagon, 

 with two erect bright 

 purple flowers 

 Squill*, sea onion, or lily hya 

 cinth, common lily hya 

 cinth, with a lily root 

 and blue flower 



Peruvian, or broad-leaved 

 hyacinth of Peru, with 

 blue flowers 



With white flowers 



Early white starry hyacinth 



Blue 



Autumnal starry hyacinth 



Larger starry blue hyacinth 

 of Byzantium 



Purple star-flower of Peru 



Italian blue-spiked star- 

 flower 

 Asphodel lily. African blue, 



with a tuberous root 

 Tuberose, or Indian tuberous 

 hyacinth. It produces a 

 small stem three or four 

 feet high, adorned with 

 many white flowers of 

 great fragrance. 



The varieties are, 



Fine double tuberose 



Single tuberose 



Small flowered 



Striped leaved 



Iris buibosa, or bulbous iris, 

 Persian, with three erect 

 blue petals called stand 

 ards, and three reflexed 

 petals called falls, which 

 are variegated, called 

 Persian bulbous ii is, with 

 a variegaled flower 



Common narrow-leaved 

 bulbous iris, with a blue 

 flower 



White 



Yellow 



Blue, with white falls 



Blue, with yellow falls 



Greater broad-leaved bulb 

 ous iris, with a deep blue 

 flower 



Bright purple 



Deep purple 



Variegated 



Great, with broad and al 

 most plain or flat leaves, 

 with blue flowers 



Purple 



Of the above there are 

 many intermediate varie 

 ties 



Hyaeinth, eastern, with large 

 flowers. Of these there 

 are many varieties, and 

 of which there are in 

 numerable intermediate 

 shades or tints of color. 



Of double sorts there are 



Blues 



Purple blues 



Affatha blues 



Whites 



