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which do not. The first is more popular al- 

 though in the latter division there are a num- 

 ber of plants whose beauty and ease of culture 

 should commend them for more liberal use. 

 To the first belong hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, 

 crocuses and similar bulbs, and to the second 

 belong crinums, the tuberous begonias, Coop- 

 erias, montbretias, callas (Richardias), tube- 

 roses, tigridias and other garden bulbs usually 

 planted in the spring. 



By judicious selection of varieties from both 

 divisions it is possible to have bulbous- and tu- 

 berous-rooted plants in bloom from frost to 

 frost, and, if the city resident be the happy pos- 

 sessor of a small greenhouse or conservatory, 

 there need be no month in the year without its 

 wealth of bloom from this order of plants alone. 

 In March, in the northern states, and earlier 

 in the more southern portion of the country, 

 snowdrops, scillas, crocuses, winter aconites 

 and chionodoxas usher in the first days of 

 spring with a glory of bloom all the more beau- 

 tiful because of its earliness. In April come 

 the hyacinths, tulips, narcissi, in all their nu- 

 merous varieties, followed later in the month 

 and ill May by the late tulips, the poets' daf- 

 fodils, and as the season progresses, by irises. 



