CHAPTER II 



HARDY BULBS 



Aconitums Alliums Alstrcemerias Anemones 

 ACONITUMS 



ALTHOUGH the effective Aconitums or Monkshoods 

 of our gardens are usually classed with ordinary herb- 

 aceous plants, the best of those with tuberous roots 

 can hardly be omitted from this work. They are of 

 much service in the mixed border or the wild garden, 

 and it is only the poisonous properties of these plants 

 which make one view them with suspicion. They should 

 not be planted where any danger can result to children 

 or to animals. Their nomenclature is very confused 

 but the names below are authoritative. The following 

 are some of the best : Cammarum, four feet, purple ; 

 flaccidum, six feet, violet ; heterophyllum, two feet, 

 yellow and blue; japonicum, six feet, flesh; Lycoctonum, 

 a pretty yellow species, four to six feet high ; Napellus, 

 very poisonous, in several varieties, four to six feet ; 

 paniculatum, three feet ; and variegatum, three to six 

 feet, blue, white, or blue and white. All of these grow 

 in any soil and can be planted in spring or autumn. 



ALLIUMS 



The Alliums can hardly be classed as among the 

 choicest of bulbous plants ; but although not among 

 the elite of our garden flowers, there are, however, 



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