HABDY PLANTS, BULBS, &c. 



Hardy Bulbs are those that, like the Lilies, endure the winter in the garden without injury, 

 and when once planted will continue to grow and increase for a number of years. They are, and 

 always will continue, popular, on account of their great beauty, and because they require so little 

 labor. The work of planting once well done is over for a life time. There is no taking up and 

 storing and re-planting no danger of loss from frost, or rotting from improper storing. Occa 

 sionally, when the increase has been so great that the plants crowd each other, they can be taken 

 up, divided and re-planted, and if the increase has been too great for the space desired to be 

 appropriated to them, flower-loving neighbors will be glad of the surplus. No pknt, or class of 

 plants, however, possess all good qualities, and those in this department do not generally keep in 

 flower a long time, like some of our best annuals and tender bedding plants. 



ANEMONE JAPONICA ALBA. 



Anemone Japonica alba is the best hardy, white blooming, autumn flowering plant we have. 



The Anemone, during the summer, is a plain looking 

 plant, with dark green foliage, one that would attract 



F ' rffj^BP / "\ ^ \- 1 -A^*-. ^t*. /.^ no attention; but in the latter part of summer flower 



stems begin to appear, and when some eighteen inches 

 in height the white flowers commence to open ; and if the 

 nights are rather cool and dewy, the advancement of the 

 plant to perfection is rapid. It soon bears from a score 

 to a hundred of its clear white flowers, and is an object 

 to delight every lover of flowers, especially as it con- 

 tinues to improve until destroyed by frost, thus giving a 

 mass of white blooms when every other white flower is 

 gone, except the Ten-Weeks Stock, Candytuft and 

 Alyssum. The flowers are more than an inch in diam- 

 eter. The plant is perfectly hardy every where, we 

 judge, never having lost one, and increases so rapidly that a small plant soon makes a conspic- 

 uous clump. Although perhaps not to be recommended for cutting, as it does not carry very well, 

 for large floral decorations it is quite valuable. 



DAY LILY. 



The pretty Funkia, commonly called Day Lily, we believe, because one of its beautiful 

 flowers opens every day, is truly a very desirable autumn 

 flower that every one should possess, and everybody will be 



pleased with. The 



plant has light, 



broad foliage, pret- 

 tily veined. The 



buds form in a 



cluster on a stem 



six inches or more 



in length, as shown 



in the engraving, 



but usually only 



one opens each 



day. The flowers 



are of the purest 



white imaginable, 



trumpet - shaped, 



about five inches in length. The blue variety, shown in the engraving at right of page, has 

 smaller flowers, but larger clusters, makes a taller growth, and though not so pretty nor so popu- 

 lar as the white, is a meritorious autumn flowering plant. 



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