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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1916 



ROSES 



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Ismene Calantha — a First Exper- 

 ience 



IN THE SDring of 191 2 a dealer in garden materi- 

 als sent me an extra bulb for trial, a thing that 

 looked like a good big Van Sion Narcissus bulb, and 

 tagged "Peruvian Daffodil" probably from this 

 root resemblance. 



I set it in the open ground in May. It took six 

 weeks to come up; then it made four or five leaves 

 like an Amaryllis, and sent up a stalk with four 

 Amaryllis-like |buds. These opened one by one to 

 great trumpets, four inches across and as much deep, 

 each of the five segments of the perianth tipped 

 with a reflexing white horn- about as long and beau- 

 tiful and useful as a catfish's whiskers. With the 

 horns cut off, in fact, the flowers were better looking 

 than in the state of nature. However, as a novelty, 

 the plant was acceptable in the garden. It bloomed 

 in August and again in October, and was delight- 

 fully fragrant. The 28th of October it was cut 

 down by a night's frost. 



According to catalogue directions, I lifted the 

 bulbs with their strong fleshy cord-like roots, potted 

 in earth, and set in a warm cellar to rest. The 

 roots went very deep in the garden, and were neces- 

 sarily much broken in lifting; I watered the pot 

 moderately until February, but got no growth. 

 Digging into the tomb, I found three very negli- 

 gible corpses of roots, soft, discolored, and with no 

 apparent aspirations toward any future life. As 

 the cellar was warm, light, dry and roomy, and the 

 outdoor weather that day very disagreeable, I in- 

 dolently omitted to throw out the wreck of the 

 Peruvian' Daffodil, and merely showed the pot under 

 a box in a corner where it would be inconspicuous 

 as a failure. 



That was in February, 1913. In March, 1914, 

 I needed that pot, brought it to the outer air, and 

 began to empty its dry dust. It had had no water 

 for thirteen months. To my astonishment, all but 

 the surface inch of the soil was a network of strong, 

 fat, fleshy, white, cordlike roots! I stayed my 

 hand, gave the monstrosity water and heat, and 

 waited to see what would happen next. 



On April 5, this floral horned toad was growing 

 strongly from three bulbs, and bore three stems of 

 flowers. Why? Is its year twenty-five months, 

 not twelve? Had it hydrophobia the previous 

 season? Is biennial bashfulness a Peruvian na- 

 tional trait in the amaryllid clan? 



Who knows? Or if nobody knows, who has a 

 parallel experience to contribute to the gentle sci- 

 ence of plant guesswork? Can any proprietor of a 

 floral morgue state how many years of total abstin- 

 ence from fluids it would take to really kill a 

 Peruvian Daffodil? 



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A Bulb for Children's Use 



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