70 BULBS AKD TUBEROUS-ROOTED PLANTS. 



White. — Mont Blanc, La Neige, and Queen Vic- 

 toria. 



Yellow.— Large Yellow, Largest Size. 



Blue. — Large Blue, and Lord Palmerston. 



Purple. — In this class the blues might have been 

 placed, as a really blue crocus does not exist; those 

 named simply approach the blue. Purple with white 

 markings, white and yellow are the predominating col- 

 ors of the crocus, and these contrast finely together. 

 The best purples are : 



Large Purple. — Chas. Dickens, Sir John Frank- 

 lin, and Othello. 



The following are fine marked and striped, and are 

 remarkable for the size of their flowers. 



General Garibaldi. — White, striped with purple. 



La Majesteuse.— Large, violet-striped, on a deli- 

 cately tinted very firm ground. 



Ne Plus Ultra. — Blue, with white border. 



Lady Stanhope. — Violet, light border. 



Pride of Albion. — Very large and fine, white, 

 striped with lilac. 



Sir Walter Scott. — Finely striped, purple and 

 white, one of the best. 



Prince of Wales. — Violet and white. 



The Crocus for the Window Garden. — The 

 Crocus does admirably as a pot plant, but to insure suc- 

 cess the corms should be planted, five or six in a five- 

 inch pot, as soon as they can be obtained in autumn. 

 Plunge the pots in coal ashes outside until they are filled 

 with roots, which will be by the first of December, when 

 they may be brought into the house, gradually bringing 

 them to the light, but at no time giving them heat. 

 Full light and a temperature not above 50°, will bring 

 them into flower, each bulb giving several blooms. High 

 temperature will surely blast the flowers. 



Autumn Flowering Crocus. — These are rarely 

 seen in cultivation, from the fact of their coming into 



