EUGHABIS CULTURE. 



Cbapter XXVIL— Crptbroniums* 



PopuLAELY known as Dog's Tooth Violets, these are most delightful 

 bulbous rooted plants for the rock garden or the border of miscel- 

 laneous subjects in the flower, vegetable, or fruit gardens. They are 

 not big growing by any means, and there is ever present a danger 

 that they maybe overwhelmedby their grosser neighbours unless care 

 is taken that this does not occur. \Yhen once the bulbs have 

 become firmly established — and no difficulty should be experienced 

 in this direction — the growth will be sufficiently vigorous for the 

 plants to take care of themselves. Like so many of our most 

 charming bulbous plants, Erythroniums are admirably adapted for 

 culture in the grass, provided this can remain uncut until the 

 leafage has performed its proper functions. 



Selection of Erythroniums. 



Dens- cams, purple, pink, Hartwegii, yellow, early 



and white ; there are flowering. 



several varieties, of Howellii, yellow. 



which Japonicum and Johnstonii, red and pink ; 



Sibiricum are probably very beautiful. 



the finest. Kutt allianum, golden 

 grandiflorum, yellow. yellow. 



r e volutumB olanderi. whit e, 



Cbapter XXVIII -€ucDari$e$. 



N"o genus of bulbous plant with which we are acquainted offers so 

 fine an opportunity to the successful cultivator for wagging a finger 

 when pointing the moral at an unsuccessful brother. What passages 

 of arms there are at meetings of gardeners' societies when Eucharis 

 culture is the subject under discussion ! Separate the wheat of 

 common sense from the chaff of impassioned rhetoric, and it is found 

 that the man who wields the water-pot holds the secret of success in 

 his hand. 



Eucharis flowers, like the poor, are always with us. They 

 adorn the font, attend the wedding, and if we have been so 

 fortunate as to make a few^ friends, it is probable some of these 

 pure and fragrant flowers will go with us on our last journey to 

 God's Acre. 



