138 FLOWER GARDENING 
of blue blossoms; the golden garlic (Allium Moly), 
which is about the last of the spring bulbs to bloom, 
and Pushkinia libanotica. The best star-of-Beth- 
lehem (Ornithogallum arabicum), the firecracker 
plant (Brodiaea coccinea), the netted iris (J. re- 
ticulata) and the “hardy gloxinia” (Jncarvillea 
Delavayi) are fairly hardy in the North, with pro- 
tection. 
Winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) responds 
less readily to culture in the North than any of 
the bulbs mentioned—none of which calls for any 
favoring other than as stated in a few instances. 
Sometimes there is a moist place in a garden under 
a shrub; there, perhaps, the green foliage tufts 
and yellow blossoms will show themselves in March 
or April. The bulbs are cheap. 
With coddling still more spring bulbs are pos- 
sibilities in the North, but are materially less risky 
propositions to the southward. Several of the 
windflowers that are so beautiful in England every 
spring, such as Anemone coronaria, A. fulgens, A. 
St. Brigid, A. hortensis, A. blanda, A. apennina 
and 4. nemorosa Robinsoniana, are among these— 
so are Gladiolus Colvillei, the early species that 
is forced in quantities; the little known but very 
beautiful deep blue Ixiolirion tataricum, the showy 
red amaryllis-like Habranthus pratensis and the 
gorgeous single and double forms of Asiatic ranun- 
culi. Here is a list that ought to be drawn on 
more in the nearer South. 
All of the spring bulbs, of course, are planted 
