ON HARDY BULBS AND TUBERS. 



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annually, as do some. 

 Once in three years 

 is often enough unless 

 disease asserts itself, 

 when it will be found 

 an excellent plan to lift 

 them and plant in quite 

 fresh ground, virgin 

 pasture loam if possible, 

 and under the shade of 

 trees. This applies to 

 the whole of the Large 

 Trumpet Daffodils 

 (Magnkoronati group), 

 which are such features 

 of our gardens, and 

 whose name is simply 

 legion, also to Incom- 

 parabilis, Barrii, early- 

 flowering Poeticus, Fig. 221.— Narcissus Bicolor Horsfieldii. 

 Burbidgei, Backhousei, 

 Leedsii (Fig. 219), Tridymus, and the late-flowering Poeticus. 



Besides representatives of the various sections into which 

 botanists have divided the genus, there are a host of 



small-flowering kinds too 

 _ __. ■—--:« fragile to be risked in 



the mixed border, but 

 whose beauty ought not 

 to be lost. For these 

 a place on the rockery 

 should be assigned, and 

 providing a suitable 

 carpet-plant is provided, 

 they will push up their 

 sweet little flowers before 

 winter's icy grip has 

 released its hold. They 

 should not be disturbed 

 so long as they are 

 doing well. In low-lying 

 pockets in the rock 

 garden might be tried 

 N. Bulbocodium (Fig. 

 220) and its varieties, ex- 

 cept monophyllus (Hoop 

 Petticoat), as well as 

 N. cydamineus, all of 

 which are moisture - 



Fig. 222 — Narcissus Madame de Graaf. 



