Isaac Hicks & Son, Westbury Station, N. Y.— Hardy Garden Tlolvers 89 
Lilium tigrinum. Tiger Lily. This is one of the 
most vigorous of the family and well able to 
maintain itself in the garden or along roadsides. 
It grows 3 or 4 feet high and is propagated from 
the little black bulblets at the base of the leaves. 
The color is an orange-yellow, spotted with black. 
LYCHNISviscariafl.pl. Ragged Robin. Double 
red. Makes the most brilliant bed in the garden 
in its season. The flowers are so dense as to make 
a solid mass for several weeks in June. The plant 
and flower resembles the June Pink in form. It 
has long, dense-flowered spikes of rich, deep rose- 
red, very double flowers of pleasant fragrance. 
L. Chalcedonica. Lamp Flower; London Pride. 
Orange-scarlet of great brilliance. No other 
hardy plant of our acquaintance approaches it 
in the fiery brilliance of this color. It is about 2 
feet high and blooms all summer. 
L. Haageana. The colors range from that of the 
last to crimson. The flowers are larger and lower. 
LUPINUS macrocephala. A showy perennial 
with an upright spike of blue pea-shaped flowers 
like the Wistaria. It is about lyi feet high, with 
leaflets radiating like a wheel and will thrive in 
dry soil. 
LAVANDULA vera. Lavender. The fragrance of 
the gray-lavender foliage brings pleasant asso- 
ciations to the mind. It will thrive if protected 
with mulch in the winter. 
MENTHA piperita. Common Peppermint. If in 
the garden it is ready for mint sauce. 
Poet's Narcissus in the grass. This is possible on almost 
any lawn. The yellow Daffodils will come two weeks 
earlier in April. 
Lychnis viscaria florc plena, showing its even and solid 
display of color 
MONARDA didyma. Oswego Tea; Bee Balm. 
The flowers are bright scarlet and so abundant 
as to make the most brilliant corner of the garden. 
The humming-birds fly back and forth in ecstacy 
over it. The flowers appear in June and continue 
all summer. The foliage has a pleasant, mint-like 
fragrance. We recommend it highly for garden 
and shrub border. 
MONTBRETIA Crocosmiseflora. A summer- 
flowering bulb, with a slender spike of golden 
orange flowers in midsummer. It should be 
scattered in groups between other flowers where 
it takes up little room. 
MYOSOTIS palustris semperflorens. Forget- 
me-not. Blooms freely in early spring and con- 
tinues half the summer. 
NARCISSUS. The charm of many old gardens 
and the touch of beauty in many cottage door- 
yards is given by the clumps of Daffodils and 
Narcissus that bloom in early spring. Many hesi- 
tate to plant these in quantity because of the 
expense of planting large quantities of the im- 
ported bulbs, and also because the admiration 
for them is in spring, and the time to plant is in 
autumn. We have collected a quantity of bulbs 
from old farm-yards where they have been grow- 
ing for many years and, therefore, there is no 
question of their hardiness and ability to with- 
stand all the different rodents and insects and 
fungi that scare the timid planter. The main 
thing is to get the bulbs in the ground and the 
simplest way is to order a thousand, which may 
be delivered from August till midwinter, and 
plant them in groups of twenty or more, 6 inches 
apart in the flower-garden or in belts of a thou- 
sand at the border of a shrubbery or in the grass 
where the lawn mower will not cut them until 
after their growth in May. There are many 
points where the grass need not be cut in May, 
as along the house foundations, or at the border 
