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any other bulbs, it is important that the material used should 

 not be drawn too tightly, as the stems swell and lengthen 

 rapidly, hence they will be soon crippled unless constantly 

 attended to, whereas if ample room be allowed, no damage 

 will result. The little, pure white Roman Hyacinths which 

 are grown in Italy and the South of France, reach this country 

 at the end of July and in August, and if potted early they will 

 flower in November and December. 



A selection of good Hyacinths is as follows : 



Single White. Alba maxima, Avalanche, Grand Vainqueur, Grand 

 Vedette, Grandeur a Merveille, Mont Blanc, White Perfection. Single 

 Red : Baron Van Tuyll, Cavaignac, Charles Dickens, Lord Wellington, 

 Macaulay, Norma, Robert Steiger. Single Blue: Argus, Charles 

 Dickens, Czar Peter, General Havelock, Grand Lilas, King of the 

 Blacks. Single Yellow : Bird of Paradise, City of Haarlem, Ida, King 

 of the Yellows, Sovereign. 



Double White: Bouquet Royal, La Tour d'Auvergne, L' Adorable, 

 Prince of Waterloo, Princess Louise. Double Red: Bouquet Royal, 

 Grand Conquerant, Lord Wellington, Sans Souci. Double Blue: 

 Blocksberg, Duke of Norfolk, Lord Raglan, Sir Joseph Paxton, Thomas 

 Moore. 



Tulips most adapted for pot-culture are : Due Van Thol in all its 

 varieties, as they are dwarf and flower early ; Belle Alliance, scarlet ; 

 Bride of Haarlem, white, flaked crimson; Canary Bird, yellow; 

 Cottage Maid, pink, marked white; Duchesse de Parme, orange red, 

 margined yellow ; Dussart, crimson ; Grand Duchess, white ; Keizer 

 Kroon, scarlet, edged yellow; King of the Yellows, deep yellow; 

 Pottebakker, scarlet, white, and yellow ; Queen of the Netherlands, 

 rose ; Queen of Violets, light purple ; Rose Grisdelin, pink and white ; 

 Scarlet Beauty, scarlet ; Thomas Moore, orange ; Van der Neer, pur- 

 plish-violet. The above-mentioned are all single, a few good double 

 kinds being : Duke of York, rose-edged white ; Imperator Rubrorum, 

 scarlet-crimson ; La Pr^coce, white ; Murillo, rose ; Tournesol, red and 

 yellow ; Velvet Gem, bronzy-crimson. 



The Narcissus (Daffodil) forms an extensive family. A selection of 

 the best for pots is : Bicolor Emperor, Empress, princeps, maximus, 

 telamonius plenus, Barri conspicuus, incomparabilis fl. pi., aurantiacus 

 fl. pi., Sir Watkin, Stella, Burbidgei, poeticus ornatus, poeticus fl. pi. 

 (the Pheasant's Eye) and the various Polyanthus Narcissus, such as 

 Bazleman major, Grand Monarch, Paper White, Soleil d'Or, Scilly 

 White, and States-General ; with the Chinese Sacred Narcissus or Joss 

 Flower, which will flower beautifully in a bowl of water, with a few 

 stones to hold it in position. 



The Lily of the Valley (Gonvallaria majalis) is a universal 

 favourite, and though considerable heat is necessary to flower it early, 

 unless in the case of retarded crowns, it will, if brought on in the 

 greenhouse, bloom much earlier than plants in the open ground. Its 



