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irises. Lathyrus lactifolius albus is the only variety of Everlasting Pea that pays for 

 growing in quantity and is especially good for memorial wreaths. Phloxes are not 

 popular, as they soon wither. Physalis Alkekengi (or winter cherry) pays for growing 

 in quantity, as its sprays of scarlet seed pods are in great demand for harvest festivals. 



Pyrethrums, single and double, are 

 good for bunching as also is the bright 

 yellow Eudbeckia Newmanni. 



Bulbous and Tuberous - rooted 

 Plants. — These comprise many kinds 

 that pay well for cultivation separately 

 in large beds, the flowers becoming 

 available after the Scilly and Channel 

 Islands' supplies of cut blooms are ex- 

 hausted. Alstromerias flower freely 

 and bunch well, as also do various 

 anemones. Daffodils and Narcissi are 

 immensely popular, and beds of the 

 choicer large trumpet varieties are 

 profitable, bunching the blooms as 

 shown in Fig. 196. The medium 

 trumpets, including the double-flower- 

 ing sorts, white and yellow, and the 

 early and late poeticus varieties also pay 

 for growing in quantity. Hyacinths, 

 first flowered in pots or boxes and then 

 planted out, flower freely, but it does 

 not pay to plant imported bulbs to 

 afford spikes for bunching purposes. 

 Irises, Spanish and English, are fairly 

 profitable. Snowdrops are grown in 

 some districts with advantage. Tulips may be planted out after flowering in pots, 

 but on the whole are not very profitable. 



Pig. 196. Market Bunch of Daffodils. 



