Jawvan 1, 1887.] 
THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 9 
follows the great mass of the work, which consists of 
a detailed account, and one or more figures of each 
species. Last of all, there is Mr. Lacaitn learned 
appendix on the etymology of the words Crocus and 
Saffron the arrangement and linitation of the 
species the author has deviated but little from the 
synopsis which he contributed to our columns in 1881 
(n.s., vol. xvi.) Under each — he gives, first, its 
full sy nd then an abbreviated Latin descrip- 
full English File et of all of the 
organs m tie type and its varieties ; and finally, an 
its distribution, history, and any other 
circumstances of history connected with it. 
Crocus is a genus that € specially needed to be 
dealt with by а monographer. It is abruptly marked 
off from all other genera, but the sixty-nine species 
do not cover altogether a wide range of variation, and 
have to be distinguished from each other often by 
minute characters taken from all their organs, It is 
Fic. l.— BULGHAR DAGH, TAURUS, 
necessary to study caesa d the corm and its tunics, 
the basal spathe, sometimes present, but sometimes 
absent; the Coa in horizontal in the proper 
spathe, the perianth in each species, and the range of 
y, upon the living plant if he could possibly get 
material; and the result of his work is fully recorded 
both in type and picture. It is a great advantage 
when the writer and the artist of a botanical book are 
the same man. The only thing that is unsatisfactory 
about the plates i is, that the colouring ofthe paler 
species—the whites and yellows—is far behind that 
of. Mr. Maw's original 
я purpose in fitting the plants for their 
conflict with other plante, or as adaptations to various 
ircumstances (se 
range of the Bulgar Dagh, Taurus, under Crocus zona- 
astery of Su 
to Mr. Maw’s kindness for the opportunity of making 
use of some of these illustrations. 
Although the genus extends from Portugal to the 
Alatau range of mountains in east longitude 88°, the 
range of the individual species is seldom great. Of 
the ten species which occur in West t Europe and 
North Africa only one (C. vernus) extends b 
its bounds. 
are thirty-two species, of which fifteen extend beyond 
Et 
it. In Syria and Palestine there are seven species, 
of which only two, or een three, are not endemic. 
ral Asia, we get two out- 
mà yore ic types—C. alata- 
e last gathered abundantly 
-. Aitehison . on qo Afghan boundary. 
Taurus range; C. parviflorus, also from the ече 
Taurus. Of two supposed species, C. me 
C. stellaris, the wild localities are n wn. 
The bibliography is very full and meat The 
only mistakes of any per ү» we notice 
are on p. 43, where it is stated, tba r's Iride- 
жыны fteen species are 2r In 
. work there are no descriptions of species, It is 
merely a catalogue of their names and synonyms, 
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chensis of Suberi, dalmaticus of reticulatus, Tourne- 
forti and veneris of Boryi, Balanse of vitellinus, and 
Crewei of biflorus 
he following’ remarks on the cultivation of 
Crocuses will bi: read with interest : 
Tux CULTURE or Crocuses. 
“As an early spring garden flower there are 
THE HOME OF CROCUS ZONATUS: FROM A SKETCH BY С, б, DANFORD, ESQ, 
perhaps few plants that ^ — а t wide-spread 
popuierity or commercia as 
It y be "Dutch ‘or a at 
the cultivation of 
Barrell, of Spalding, for a fu 
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account of bulb-cultivation in land, 
Lincolnshire, and extract from it the following notes 
n the cultivation of C 
e3 me sout 
xtre h Lincolnshire is the 
centre of English айш. Тһе land meg rins 
been reclaimed from the 
ee by the outfall rete rivers {у nett n, Welland, 
е, Ouse, by as warpin g 
"iih hun a rich айта! dep deposit admirably suited 
th of e ion of bulb or tnber. 
for the growth o 
Th 
Spalding, which forms dod head- 
quite of the uie The yellow Dutch Crocus isthe 
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