HARDY PLANTS, BULBS, &c. 
Hardy Bulbs are those that, like the Lilies, endure the winter in the garden without injury, 
and when once planted will continue to grow and increase for a number of years. They are, and 
always will continue, popular, on account of their great beauty, and because they require so little 
labor. The work of planting once well done is over for a life time. There is no taking up and 
storing and re-planting — no danger of loss from frost, or rotting from improper storing. Occa 
sionally, when the increase has been so great that the plants crowd each other, they can be taken 
up, divided and re-planted, and if the increase has been too great for the space desired to be 
appropriated to them, flower-loving neighbors will be glad of the surplus. No plant, or class of 
plants, however, possess all good qualities, and those in this department do not generally keep in 
flower a long time, like some of our best annuals and tender bedding plants. 
ANKMONE JAPONIGA ALBA. 
Anemone Japonica alba is the best hardy, white blooming, autumn flowering plant we have. 
The Anemone, during the summer, is a plain looking 
plant, with dark green foliage, one that would attract 
no attention; but in the latter part of summer flower 
stems begin to appear, and when some eighteen inches 
in height the white flowers commence to open ; and if the 
nights are rather cool and dewy, the advancement of the 
plant to perfection is rapid. It soon bears from a score 
to a hundred of its clear white flowers, and is an object 
to delight every lover of flowers, especially as it con- 
tinues to improve until destroyed by frost, thus giving a 
mass of white blooms when every other white flower is 
gone, except the Ten- Weeks Stock, Candytuft and 
Alyssum. The flowers are more than an inch in diam- 
eter. The plant is perfectly hardy every where, we 
judge, never having lost one, and increases so rapidly that a small plant soon makes a conspic- 
uous clump. Although perhaps not to be recommended for cutting, as it does not carry very well, 
for large floral decorations it is quite valuable. 
DAY LILY. 
The pretty Funkia, commonly called Day Lily, we believe, 
flowers opens every day, is truly a very desirable autumn 
flower that every one should possess, and everybody will be 
pleased with. The 
plant has light, 
broad foliage, pret- 
tily veined. The 
buds form in a 
cluster on a stem 
six inches or more 
in length, as shown 
in the engraving, 
but usually only 
one opens each 
day. The flowers 
are of the purest 
white imaginable, 
trumpet -shaped, 
about five inches in length. The blue variety, shown in the engraving at right of 
smaller flowers, but lai-ger clusters, makes a taller growth, and though not so pretty nor 
lar as the white, is a meritorious autumn flowering plant. 
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