PUSCHKINIA, MUSCARI, LILY OF THE VALLEY, DIELYTRA, AND SPIRAEA. '7 
PUSCHKINIA. 
This beautiful variety of Puschkinia offered is a first-class dwarf hardy April-flowering bulb, and should be 
represented in the permanent flower borders of every garden ; it is charming on rockwork, and 1S a *so a 
very pretty in-door pot-plant (6 bulbs in a pot). A coloured plate of it appeared in The Garden , 1078 and iool. 
752 Puschkinia libanotica compacta, white, deeply shaded and striped blue, height 4 to 6 in. , s. d. 
per 100, ior. 6d . ; per doz. is, 6d. ; each o 3 
MUSCARI. 
•• The Muscarl " says Mr. William Robinson, in his paper a/ the Conference on Hardy Flowers •* / made 
trial of and was delighted with the pretty clouds of blue in the grass. ' These Grape, Starch, Musk, and 
Feathered Hyacinths re/juire no special culture or soil , they are very beautiful in the rock and flower border, 
and continue a long time in bloom. 
per doz. 
753 Armenlacum, ultramarine blue, very •. d. 
beautiful, ht.Jft per 100, 7 s. 6 d. 1 3. 
754 Azureum, beautiful sky-blue, the 
earliest of all. Figured 
in The Garden, 1889 ... 
755 ,, robustum (new), a great 
beauty 
756 „ amphlbolis (new), pale 
blue , beautiful 
757 , . pygmaeum ( new) , a pretty 
little early variety 
758 Botryoldes cceruleum (Grape Hya- 
cinth), dark blue, ht. 6 in., 
per ioo, 2 s. 6 d. 
album, beautiful pure white 
per ioo, 4 f. 6 d. o 
candidum, white , tinged rose 5 
leucophsaus, beautiful pale 
porcelain-blue 7 
pallidum grandlflorum, very 
bea utiful pale azure-blue 3 
each 
». d. 
per doz. 
t. d. 
each 
». d. 
5 6.. o 6 
o 6 . 
789 
760 
761 
1 
762 
8 
6...0 6 
6...0 9 
6...0 4 
763 Conicum, large spikes of bright blue 
flowers, very early ; the finest of all 
per 100, ice 6 d. 2 0...0 3 
761 Heldreichi, large spikes of bright 
Hue flowers, beautiful ant rare 1 o 
765 Moschatum, the Musk- Hyacinth, 
very fragrant, hi. 8 in. 4 6...0 6 
766 „ major, the Large Musk- 
Hyacinth, fragrant 6 6...0 8 
767 „ flavutn, large spikes 
of fine yellow fragrant 
flowers, rare 5 ® 
768 Neglectum majus, blue-black, large 
and very early. Remains 
long in beauty, p.100,5/6 o 10 
769 Paradoxum, handsome spikes of dark 
blue black flowers to 6 1 0 
770 Plumosum monstrosum (Feathered 
Hyacinth), purple-lilac, p. 100,6/6 1 o 
771 Szovltzianum, pretty light blue, 
dwarf species per 100, 8/6 1 3...0 3 
LILY OF THE VALLEY, For forcing, and making plantations out-of-doors. 
The clumps of Lily of the Valley quoted, have been specially prepared, and cannot fail to give abundance 
of flowers. In potting, the top of the crowns should be one inch below the rim of the pot ; tight potting is ot 
great importance, and care should be taken, in the first watering, that the moisture penetrates to th c centre 
of the clump. Prepared crowns are now extensively used by the growers for Covent Garden Market, who put 
20 to 30 in a e-inch pot. The Berlin Crowns are the best for very early forcing. 'I he prepared clumps we think 
will be found by private growers preferable to crowns. The supply of Extra Selected Clumps being limited, 
orders should be booked early for dispatch in November. .... , , . , . , u„ 
, Culture. — A moist atmosphere and abundance of water is indispensable to success in lorcing Lily o 
Valley ; therefore, to encourage simultaneously the development of flower and foliage, most growers place the 
pots in a shady damp part of the house, or invert a flower-pot over the crowns, till the flower and the foliage 
have made some progress, then they are removed to a less shady situation. If they are grown in a dry atmos- 
phere, or get an insufficient supply of water at the roots, the crowns, technically speaking, ' go blind. 
Naturalization. — T he Lily of the Valley is admirably adapted for this purpose, and the Dutch Crowns 
will be found the best. each -t. 
772 Extra strong selected clumps p. doz. 12/ 1 
773 Strong Berlin Crowns, for early-forcing, 
per 100, 61. ; per bundle of 25, 2 s. 
774 Dutch Crowns for out door planting, and 
naturalizing in woods, etc., 
per 100, 51. 6 d . ; per 1000, 421. 
DIELYTRA (lyre flowers). For forcing, or planting out. 
The most elegant of all forced plants for conservatory and room decoration, also to cut for furnishing vases. 
The graceful pendant branches are loaded with beautiful rosy crimson heart-shaped flowers, and turmsne w 
the most delicate rich green foliage. In shrubberies or herbaceous borders, few plants in summer are so 
attractive as the Lyre Flower. e»ch-s, i. each-s <t_ 
775 Spectabllis, clumps, p. doz. 5/6 & 7/6; 6<f.&o 9 | 776 Spectabtlis alba, white, 2 ft 1 6 
SPIILEA (THE MEADOW SWEET). For forcing, or planting out. 
The large graceful, feathery, pure white, fragrant flowers of Spiraea japonica and the new var . le .’7 coin ' 
pacta multiflora surpass all else in this way to cut for furnishing vases, while the plants are amongst the most 
decorative for the conservatory and room. In forcing, a moist atmosphere and abundance of water is necessary. 
Spiraea palmata has feathery clusters of lovely rosy crimson blossoms, which for vases are great y pr . 
Spiraea japonica fol. aureo-reticulatis is a most handsome and ornamental plant, and forces as easily as a. 
japonica. In sheltered moist borders out of doors these plants are very decorative. 
each— s a 
777 Japonica, while, strong clumps for 
forcing p. doz. 5/6 
„ fol. aureo-reticulatls, golden- 
blotched foliage, handsome, 
clumps per doz. 10/6 
,, compacta mulUflora (new), 
dwarf and compact, with large 
dense spikes of feathery white 
flowers clumps, p. doz. 7/6 o 9 
For other Species of Spiraeas, see Plant Catalogue. 
King Street, Covent Garden, 1893.] 
778 
779 
o 6 
each— 3. 
780 Palmata, lovely rosy crimson flowers, 
clumps for forcing per doz. 5/6 o 
781 „ alba, elegant light-green foliage 
with large spreading plumes of 
snow-white flowers, beautiful 1 
782 Astilboldes, a lovely species, bearing dense 
drooping plumes of graceful snowy white 
flowers clumps 2 
