HENDERSON'S BULB CULTURE. 



ifaturalizing lulbous Hants. 



Many of our most beautiful hardy bulbous plants will be 

 found to succeed well, and much enhance the beauty of 

 the lawn, carriage drive, or woodland walk, if judiciously planted in 

 groups or masses in prominent positions, on grassy slopes or banks, 

 under isolated trees, or even under groups of trees where perhaps 

 the grass holds but a precarious foothold. Many of them too, come so early in the season that they 

 perfect their growth and are ready for their season of rest by the time the trees are in full leaf or the 

 grass ready for the mower. Beautiful as the green grass is, other beauties may be added enhancing 

 its charms, and supplying these wherever and whenever a chance occurs is doing good work. What 

 for instance is more beautiful in early spring, when winter has scarcely untied his icy fetters than to 

 find under some tree, close by a favorite walk, a carpet of the Winter Aconite with its bright yellow 

 flowers, each in a quaint and pretty setting of green, still further along groups of the lovely blue 

 Scillas, Grape Hyacinths, Glory of the Snow, Crocuses, etc. Snowdrops particularly, when once 

 planted increase freely and cover the ground with a wealth of bloom every spring without further 

 trouble. They should all be carefully planted in fall using a sharp trowel in preference to a dibber, or 

 better still the sod removed by a spade, and the soil underneath loosened and enriched if necessary, 

 the bulbs placed at the required depth, and the sod returned. The location of the group of course 

 must decide its size. In many places small groups of Daffodils or Irises will be much more effective 

 and give greater pleasure than a large mass would do, while in other small groups or masses of Scillas, 

 Snowdrops, or Chionodoxas would look weak and out of place. Individual taste therefore must be the 

 guide bearing in mind, however, that every season adds to their effectiveness and beauty. The 

 following species are admirably adapted for this purpose, and will be found among the chief attractions 

 of a woodland walk in early spring. Instructions as to depth and time to plant, etc. , will be found 

 under their respective headings. 



Allium Moly, yellow. Open and sunny position. 

 Apios Tuberosa, brownish purple, Climbing. 

 Bulbocodium, purple. Partial shade. 

 Camassia, purple. Shady woods. 

 Chionodoxa, Glory of the Snow, blue. Open or 



shady banks. 

 Colchicum, Meadow Saffron, purple. Open and 



sunny position. 

 Convallaria, Lily of the Valley, white. Shady 



woods. 

 Crocus, many colors. Open and sunny places. 

 Daffodils (Narcissus), yellow. Open or shady dells. 

 Dioscorea, Cinnamon" Vine, whitish. Climbing. 

 Dodecatheon, purple and white. Partial shade. 

 Eranthis (Winter Aconite), yellow. Partial shade, 



under trees, etc. 

 Erythronium, Dog's Tooth Violet, purple and 



white. Partial shade. 

 Galanthus (Snowdrop), white. Partial shade, 



under trees. 

 Hemerocallis flava, yellow. Open , sunny, moist. 



Hyacinth, many colors, Sheltered but open. 

 Iris, Germanica, many colors. Moist rich banks. 

 Iris, Ksempferi (Japan), many colors. Banks of 



streams, etc. 

 Leucojum, Snow-flake, white. Open or partial 



shade. 

 Liliums, various sorts, and colors. Open and 



sunny position. 

 Muscari, Grape Hyacinth, blue and white. Partial 



shade. 

 Muscari, Feather Hyacinth, blue. Partial shade. 

 Narcissus, (Daffodil,) yellow. Open or shady. 

 Narcissus — Poeticus, white. Open and sunny. 

 Pseonias — sorts, white, red, etc. Open and sunny. 

 Puschkinia, blue. Partial shade. 

 Scilla Sibirica, blue. Shady banks. 

 Scilla campanulata, blue. Shady woods. 

 Trillium, white. Shady woods. 

 Tulips, many colors. Open and sunny. 

 Zephyranthes, white and pink. Open and sunny. 



