CHAPTER VII 



BULBS FOR SUMMEE BLOOMING 



Op special interest to the summer garden, especially 

 in the summer or the temporary home, is the class 

 of plants known as summer-blooming bulbs, though 

 some of them belong properly to the tuberous and 

 corm class, as the dahlia, canna and the like; They 

 have one general classification, however, in that they 

 are bedded out in spring or early summer and de- 

 pend upon house or cellar storage during the winter, 

 in this being differentiated from those bulbs and roots 

 which remain for the entire twelve months in the 

 ground. 



The most conspicuous member of this class, used 

 as it is so largely for ornamental planting in parks, 

 on lawns and wherever a semi-tropical, ornate effect 

 is desired, is the canna. This, while easily raised 

 from seed, is usually started from the tubers which 

 have been wintered in the cellar or purchased of the 

 florist in the spring. Where cannas are grown for 

 the bloom as well as for the foliage effect the plant- 

 ing of tubers is really necessary, as only in this way 



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