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Mar 18, 1898. 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
623 
THE BULB GARDEN, 
THE BEST NARCISSI FOR EARLY 
FORCING. 
Wirz your permission I will endeavour to give 
my experience on the above subject in response to 
your question at p. 558. Less than a decade since, 
if we except those age included under the head 
the early forcing of Bp 
thi g pe nown, I employ 
re by reason of the indifferent way 
in which the Polyantbus group answers to forcing. 
Indeed, taken as a whole, they aré by no means the 
5 suited for the * and especially so, if not 
properly prepared, , again, the high price of 
many of the better tr was to a large extent 
ä — ſew would care to risk the best kinds 
in — ion Yi — they had no previous 
— ce—at least, on anything like 
a large scale, 
Bat the question of high price wee not hold good 
in all cases, because one of the best for forcing 
be egan, was t 
monius ean 
Thi n flower, 
found growing in abun — tt n nearly 2 cottage 
garden, was, of course, too common e be worthy a 
moment’s thought for * purposes. A 
this auen was by no 
eo 
rved prominence, Thenit 
into popularity. re d no 
thousands and thonsands, ki bulbs of these flowers 
leave this country for America and more distant 
parts in all the best varieties for forcing and other 
purposes. It is a remar — fact, in so varied and 
extensive a genus o plants, that very few 
varieties indeed will lend — to what may 
really be termed early forcing. But ed 517 8 
remark is equally zip: of Tulips and Hyacinths, as 
of each of these can —— the 
the year 1886, the second week of February 
was Rene te early to have Narcissus in flower 
under glass; but now, with good culture, they may 
had in "well for the new year, In fact, the 
there are no two varieties that can equal the Tenby 
Daffodil (N. obvallaris) pio the old Double Yellow 
i. egege plenus). These may be had for the 
w year in ordinary mild winters, but in 3 
ert, Py fog and early pae it will be quite 
fortnight later at least, In ti 
things are immovable by heat 
force them unduly will have to pay most dearly for 
of these are altogether unsuitable for early forcing. In 
my own case, I have thr s, two of which came 
me from Ireland; but grown side by side 
in the open, and prepared together for forcing, and 
placed in Heat at the same time, the one will fower 
fully a fortnight = than the other. They are 
distinct in foliage 
course, 2 ea 3 and it 20 — that 
he k se to tog in this case is also t ost free 
fro With the exception of — double 
kind — no other double is worth growing for 
earliest work; but orange a ae and sulphur 
Phoenix should both * r second early, 
These are both charming kinds, and in con- 
dition much mong the single yellows 
suited to forcing, Ard Righ is in every way excel- 
pee it e, pay and = but is, — — 
soils, uch more expensive 
— a —— Teaby "Daffodil, N. 
which is — in immense quantities for market- 
wor Single Von Sion is also a good kind, also 
grown — hen in successional — we have 
a grand * in Golden Spur, a vigorous kind, with 
a bold and telling trumpet, that makes a fine show, 
Alt though thie may still be included among the more 
costly, yet it is only about half the price it was a few 
ears n early in September, and 
rough e forcing- house, 
this — comes away well, and bold —— 5 — 
are the 
as the — kind, the variety Horsfieldi djis 
well grown in this way under g and the flowers 
in no way marred by soot and put brought down 
by heavy rains when grown in the open; this prince 
of the bicolors is indeed an exquisite thing. At all 
times a good market flow 
in its class when forced earlier 
effect in vase decoration is alee This I d 
as indispensable among second early kinds, requiring 
d season of preparation an ady ing. 
— and Countess of Annesley are ae — 
and useful kinds, also for successional work, the first 
Th — somewhat flimsy in the segments, it is withal 
a beantiful and graceful flower, and minor defects 
4 — when flowers early in the season 
are not sò a i de by side, and with iden- 
tical treatment throughout, Princeps is several days 
earlier in bloom than Countess of Annesley, the 
first-uamed baving longer stems also, The latter 
prefer a slower and more natural treatment to attai 
perfection, It will thus be ~~ how very few of m 
me may — forced early a 
. Indeed, it is the less 3 
kinds — that force earliest and best, while 
the great bulk may be grown in pots for later 
mercial stan 
when — for forcing. vere is no kind bad which 
ard-and-fast lines are ntial than this; 
sending forth roots continuo an ana for ay , 
part of the year it m potted exceptionally early 
Plaoged out- 3 till the 
t 
to 45° for a fortnight or so; or better still, till the 
lear away from the neck of the bulb. 
d on no account be employed, 
ad of 3 
ket growe 
man 
have prov too early introduction 
into heat without the requisite —— ion has a 
upon variety, and 
tter 
blooms than. it that rod ei tes in the 
heat. In = thie kind abhors heat, as it will 
bs have been — 
It is, however, the only Poet Narcies that may be 
forced ort arly ; but it is certainly the most besu- 
tiful, commercially the most valu The 
dene vol Narciss wil not force at all, and, indeed, 
requires special treatment under any circumstances, 
even in the open ground, to make it a success. 
Z. H. Jenkins, Ham ill, 
CRINUM GIGANTEUM. 
This is a species of one of the most beautiful 
bulbous plants in cultivation, very often indifferently 
gtown, but when well managed throws its great 
tulip-like flowers from stout a yee that 
dispense a Gardenia-like a whole 
re isa 
ouse, The . 
of the houses er a Wi of Vine House, 
a ogden (ar. ouse). It bears six of 
T. Lof 
te large i ae Šor — ea bulbs, all growing 
centre in a 14-inch pot in a mixture of 
— with a slight sprinkling of peat, It is in the 
ruddiest health, bear ve scapes, and yielding 
a of its 3 flowers, 
but like all the Crinums, cup-like before expansion, 
the six segments, three interior and three exterior, 
ar all eee 
culata i at respect, but 
nro —— the addition of rich fragrance, 
ow welcome 29 ies is for all indoor decora- 
main feature in ite 9 
seems to be the keeping, it in an intermediate 
where Camellias are generally grown. We 1 
the house is not subjected to the low temperatures 
of a Camellia-house in winter, bat Mr, Warburton 
been growing in its 
place bove noticed for years, pointing clearly to 
the fact that the general bulival of this Crinum 
has been too tropical for ita floral-prodactive effects, 
J. 4. 
—— —— 
BOUGAINVILLEA GLABRA. 
—— plant has been flowered successfully at 
be Abbey for the past thirty y the 
conditions :—In a ider kept at 
dium degr „ growing 
3 made at one end of 
with a of k 
the house, wh 
leaf. mould, and and. As it gre 
four 
back wall, 95 
and flowered osha ; but the con 
showed me that there were too many shoots on the 
plant, and eventually they were all cut away, leaving 
is now about 40 feet long, and at 
y "in the rod b reely, laterals trom 6 to 
hea apart are selected, and all others are per- 
itn rabbed off. These shoots are 
and over the footpath, and push out to a 
— of from 6 to 9 —— 2 — laden with their 
lovely mauve in flores ce These sp 
very 2 in 
questio occasion, e these me 
eg or el pren ? The ral shoots ar 
now about 1 foot long, and ther ge come ‘into 
stem 5 
cisely the same 3 as one would treat a Vine, 
insecticide, months, —— 
flowering shoots the back of the house are 
met from the front by an equally growth 
oe per sion plant n when sot fruit, form, as one 
bination of Flora 
6 Lr at, 
