Round the Year in the Garden 



covered with soil ; in fact, in dealing with the large 

 Daffodils, and Hyacinths, this is not possible ; they can 

 usually be covered to the extent of one half, which 

 answers quite well. The smaller kinds of bulbs may be 

 covered wholly. After all it is chiefly beneath the bulbs 

 that one needs to have the bulk of the soil. 



Amateurs often complain that the leaf tips of the 

 bulbs turn yellow as they progress, and that the general 

 appearance of the plants is thereby disfigured. Incorrect 

 watering may account for this, though it is due chiefly, 

 I think, to the fact that immediately upon being taken 

 out of the ashes or other covering, beneath which they 

 were placed to form roots, the bulbs are exposed to 

 full light. At that stage the leaf tips are tender and 

 easily injured, and therefore for a few days the plants 

 ought to be shaded so that the exposure to full light 

 may be gradual. A bulb that some may care to grow 

 for the sake of curiosity is called Monarch of the East, 

 and its botanical name is Amorphophallus Rivieri. It will 

 come into bloom in an ordinary living room if placed 

 in a comparatively warm place, such, for example, as 

 on the mantelshelf. It cannot be described as handsome, 

 for it is something like a greenish-brown Arum Lily. 

 When growth begins in spring it is necessary to pot 

 the bulb in ordinary potting compost and keep it in 

 the greenhouse. 



There is no need to restrict one's selection of bulbs 

 for pots to Daffodils, Tulips, Hyacinths and a few 

 others equally common, for are there not Spanish Iris, 

 Ixia, Sparaxis, Lilium, Anemone, Snowflake, Star of 

 Bethlehem and others that have already been referred 

 to in this chapter? Every year one ought to grow a 

 few fresh flowers ; this is the way to sustain perennial 

 interest in gardening. 



Lilies in Pots. The favourite Lily for growing in 

 flower-pots is the White Trumpet Lily (Lilium longi- 

 florum), of which the variety giganteum is finer than 



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