Round the Year in the Garden 



branches until the plants are growing freely. The 

 upper roots should be covered with 2 or 3 inches of 

 soil, and lime rubble or broken plaster may be mixed 

 in freely with advantage. 



The Indian Crocus. Those who wish to have a 

 flower border edging that is not at all common should 

 grow the flower of the West Wind, or Indian Crocus, as 

 Zephyranthes Candida is popularly called. It produces 

 dark green narrow leaves, and in August and September 

 yields a profusion of white flowers much resembling 

 those of the Crocus. The bulbs may be planted now, 

 about 3 inches deep. The display of bloom is not 

 likely to be good the first autumn after planting, but, 

 provided the bulbs are left undisturbed, there will be 

 plenty of flowers in subsequent seasons. The plant is 

 quite happy in a half shady position, as, for example, on 

 the edge of a border facing west. There are several 

 other sorts of Zephyranthes, though this is the only 

 one that is really hardy. Another bulb that seems 

 somewhat unworthily neglected is Veltheimia viridif olia ; 

 it is quite an excellent plant for the cool or cold green- 

 house. One can scarcely call it handsome, but the 

 pinkish-yellow, drooping blooms that cluster towards 

 the top of a stem some 12 inches or more high are 

 quite attractive. It may be grown very easily in a 

 flower-pot in a compost of loam, with a little leaf soil 

 and sand added ; it blooms in August. 



Sowing Sweet Peas Out of Doors. The method 

 of Sweet Pea growing most commonly practised nowa- 

 days is to sow seeds in pots in a greenhouse or frame in 

 January or early in February, and in April to plant the 

 seedlings out of doors. But seeds may be sown out of 

 doors from now until the middle or, in the Northern 

 counties, even the end of March, with every hope of 

 success, providing the ground has been previously dug 

 some 2 feet deep. Superphosphate of lime mixed in 

 the upper 12 inches in advance of sowing, at the 



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