PLANTS CULTIVATED FOR THEIR FLOWERS, ETC. 167 



The cultivation of saffron, of wliicli the conditions 

 are given in the Coiirs cVAfjricidture by Gasparin, and 

 in tiie Bulletin de la Societe d' Acclimatation for 1870, is 

 becoming more and more rare in Europe and Asia.-^ It 

 has sometimes had the effect of naturalizing the species 

 for a few years at least in localities where it appears to 

 be wild, 



* Jacquemont, Voyage, vol. iii. p. 238. 



