CHAPTER XVIII 



GREENHOUSE AND STOVE BULBS 



Lachenalias Nerines and Lycorises Pancratiums and Hymenocallises 

 Richardias Sprekelias Tuberoses Vallota? Watsonias 

 Zephyranthes 



LACHENALIAS 



WERE the beauty and usefulness of the Lachenalias 

 better known, they would soon become very popular 

 plants for the amateur's greenhouse and window. They 

 may be said to lie on the border-line between greenhouse 

 and frame plants, as only sufficient heat is needed to 

 keep out frost. The popular name of " Cape Cowslips" 

 gives some indication of the appearance of the spikes of 

 drooping flowers, but hardly expresses the singularly 

 pretty colouring, which lies in the yellow or white 

 grounds and the shadings of green, red, or purple, 

 which make such pretty combinations. The Lachenalia, 

 which can be had in bloom from February to May, 

 requires a period of rest, and after flowering the pots 

 should either be placed on a sunny shelf or other dry 

 place, and water gradually withheld as the leaves become 

 yellow. Pot in August in loam, leaf-soil, or peat, and 

 a little manure and sand. Some grow Lachenalias in 

 hanging baskets lined with moss and filled with soil. A 

 good selection may be made from the following, but 

 the newer varieties are well worth having also, although 

 a little more expensive. A selection : fragrans, lilacina, 

 Nelscni (hybrid), pendula, tricolor, tricolor lutea (syn. L. 

 aurea). New varieties are Aldborough Beauty, Cawston 



Gem, and Rector of Cawston. 



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