MISCELLANEOUS BULBS, TUBERS, PLANTS, AND THE GARDEN IN SPRING. 39 
each — s. 
+STRUMARIA, IMHOFIA, HESSEA, CARPOLYZA. 
The pretty little Cape bulbs which are sold 
under the foregoing names are so closely 
related that we have placed them under 
Strumaria, recommending them for pot 
culture. 
1989 crispa, rosy pink, £ ft 
1990 filifolia, rose, ^ ft 
1991 spiralis, pink, h ft 
§THLADIANTHA, a fine hardy climber. 
1992 cl ubia, golden yellow 
§TRICHONEMA ( Romulea ). The slender grassy 
foliage and the large beautiful satiny rich- 
coloured flowers make these admirable for 
pot culture, and charming plants in select 
borders. 
1993 Bulbocodium, purple-lilac , £ ft 
1994 ramiflorum, purple, very handsome, \ ft. 
1995 speciosum, cat mine, very fine, ft 
§TRILLIUM (the Wood Lily). A plant of great 
beauty for moist and shady situations, such 
as the north sides of rockwork, rooteries, 
Rhododendron beds, and semi-wild situa- 
tions. As a pot plant it is valuable for forc- 
ing, and charming in bouquets. 
1996 grandiflorum, pure white , ft 
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1997 atro-purpureum, purple, £ ft i 
*TRITOMA, a plant of noble aspect, for distant 
effect and shrubbery borders, when well 
cultivated throwing up majestic flower stems 
3 to 7 feet in height, crowned with dense 
spikes of bloom 15 to 24 inches long. 
1998 glaucescens, rich scarlet, flowering in 
August, September, and October, per 
doz., iol 6 d. and 15 ^ is. and 1 
1999 grand is, bright scarlet, taller, and more 
noble in aspect than Glaucescens, flower- 
ing in Oct., Nov., and Dec. is. 6d. and 2 
#TULBAGHIA, the species noted produces hand- 
some umbels of flowers ; and being sub- 
aquatic, it is very pretty in summer on the 
margins of lakes. 
2000 violacea, rose-lilac , 1 ft 1 
§UVULARIA, elegant free-flowering plants, valu- 
able forjockwork, and succeeding best in a 
somewhat shady situation. 
2001 grandiflora, golden yellow, ^ ft 1 
2002 perfoliata, pale yellow, ^ ft 1 
+WACHENDORFIA, interesting plants, with 
racemes of curious purple and yellow flowers. 
2003 brevifolia, grey colour, with yellow eye, 1 ft. o 
2004 thyrsiflora, purple, 1 ft o 
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BOOKS ON HARDY AND ALPINE FLOWERS. 
By W. Robinson, F.L.S., Founder of the Garden. 
HARDY FLOWERS, 5*. "A minute Eincyclopcedia ." — Saturday Review. 
THE WILD GARDEN. With a Chapter on the Garden of British Wild Flowers a 
ALPINE FLOWERS FOR ENGLISH GARDENS. With many Illustrations ' 12 / ' 
JXC THE SUB-TROPICAL GARDEN ; or, BEAUTY OF FORM IN THE FLOWER GARDEN is 6d 
ROBINSON S CATALOGUE OF HERBACEOUS, ALPINE, AND BULBOUS PLANTS is ' ' 
THE GARDEN IN SPRING, OR THE SPRING FLOWER GARDEN. 
LIST OF BULBS, PLANTS, AND SEEDS TO BE PLANTED OR SOWN IN AUTUMN, TO FLOWER IN SPRING 
Tiie Bulbs arc ready to send out from the ist September to Christmas. 
The Plants arc ready to send out from the ist October till March. 
The Seeds should be sown in August or September, according to locality. 
A Spring Garden means flowers, weather permitting, from Christmas to June. The possessor of a garden, 
whether large or small, need have no difficulty in surrounding himself with flowers from Christmas, if he will 
make use for the purpose of the bulbs, plants, and seeds enumerated, or such of them as his accommodation or 
requirements demand. At Cliveden, »Spring gardening still continues to maintain its prestige under the direction 
of Mr. Fleming, the Father of Spring Gardens. We are happy in being able to add, however, that Cliveden has 
its rivals ; indeed, there are few localities now where Spring gardening is not well represented — either public or 
private. Of public gardens, the Lower Grounds, Aston, in the enterprising hands of Mr. Quilter, has attained 
an unprecedentedly high position for Spring gardening, both in regard to the enormous extent and variety ot 
design, and in the immense masses of colour which are brought out from the earliest dawn of Spring, followed 
in May by the elaborate designs and traceries in which the Daisy, the Aubrietia, Pansies, and Violas play a 
prominent part. Mr. Quilter’s Spring Gardens are worth making a long journey to see from March to June. 
His Crocus-garden in March, his Tulip-garden in April, and his Daisy-garden in May are sights once seen not 
soon to be forgotten. The plants, bulbs, and seeds, required for Spring gardening, are all perfectly hardy, and 
they surpass in variety of tint, diversity of form and brilliancy of colour the subjects used in the Summer Garden. 
Immediately the exotics have been removed in-doors, the beds and borders should be forked up and manured, 
then planted as taste or fancy may suggest, with Bulbs, such as Hyacinths, Narcissus, Tulips, Crocus, Snow- 
drops, Winter aconites, Triteleias, Ranunculus, Anemones, Crown Imperials and Scillas. These all have their 
places. Besides these there is a perfect galaxy of beauty to be realized from combinations of the following 
flowering plants — Alyssum, Arabis, Aubrietia, Daisy, Forget-Me-Not, Pansy, Polyanthus, Phlox, Pink, 
Viola, and Wallflower. The annuals which should be sown in August and September are Agrostemma, 
Alyssum, Calandrinia, Campanula, Candytuft, Clarkia, Collinsia, Eschscholtzia, Eucharidium, Eutoca, Gilia, 
Godetia, Lasthenia, Hymenoxis, Leptosiphon, Linaria, Lupinus, Nemophila, Oxyura, Platystemon, Saponaria, 
Silene, Viscaria, Whitlavia, etc. For full particulars of these see Spring Seed Catalogue. Sow the annuals early 
in September out of doors, or later in the season in cold frames, and plant out in spring. Amongst ornamental 
foliage plants for the Spring Garden we may mention Golden Feather Pyrethrum, Ajuga, Arabis albida fol. 
variegatis, Veronica incana, Aubrietia variegata, Cerastium tomentosum, the golden blotched Daisy, the Stachys 
lanata, and as edgings for permanent work, Euonymus radicans argenteo-variegatus, and the gold-margined 
Thyme. 
Fifty plants charged at the rate per 100 , a less quantity at the rate per dozen ; any quantity under half-a-dozen 
per doz. 
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2 uu» Anemone apenmna, iuigens, steiiata, ana nemorosa. bee p. 25 . 
2009 ,, coronaria, the Double and Single Poppy Anemone. See pp. 24 , 25 . 
12 , King Street , Covent Garden, 1877 .] 
per 100 . 
will ue cnargea a lime mgner man oy me aozen. 
2005 Adonis vernalis, bright yellow, large anemone-like flowers 
2006 Alyssum saxatile, beautiful yellow, very profuse flowering 25 o 
2007 „ „ compactum, bright yellow, dwarf and compact 25 o 
