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Boston, Massachusetts, mentions a bed of ten Yuccas planted 

 four years, whicli produced fifteen flower stems, none of them less 

 than six feet high, and upon which the flowers were numbered by 

 thousands. The flowers appear iu July and continue for a long 

 time. 



BULBOUS-EOOTED FLOWEES. 



Under this head are grouped a class of flowers of great beauty, 

 easy of culture, and many of which are most admirably adapted 

 for wiudow culture and winter blooming. Some of these are most 

 easUy grown in those parts of Canada where the snow falls soonest 

 and remains the longest, requiring no other protection than that 

 mantle which nature provides for her children of the soU, and 

 under which she so lovingly wraps them from the frost. In 

 those places where the ground is often bare during a large part 

 of the cold season, and the frosts penetrate to considerable depth, 

 the tender care of the cultivator must supply the needed covering, 

 and some coarse litter be spread over them of sufficient depth to 

 prevent the frost from penetrating far into the soil below. 



This class of plants is seldom troubled with insects and is 

 measurably exempt from diseases, and by a proper selection 

 and treatment may be had in bloom, in some or other of its 

 members, all the year round. Many of these add to the charms 

 of beauty the most delightful perfume, and whether blooming in 

 a bed under the window or upon the flower-stand in the room, 

 ynR fill the house with their pleasant odors. 



A want of knowledge of the habits and true methods of cul- 

 ture of these flowers has, we are persuaded, been the hindrance 

 hitherto to their general introduction into our flower gardens. 

 We have often known our nurserymen and florists to receive 

 orders in the spring for bulbs that should be planted in the fall, 

 and which, if taken up and transported to the purchaser in spring, 

 wiU be very sure to perish. It is hoped that the hints here 

 given wiU be so clear and practical that aU doubt and misappre- 



