Class. 
TRIANDRIA. 
CRO'CUS VER'NUS. 
WHITE-TIPPED CROCUS. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
IRIDACE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
England. 
4 inches. 
Feb. Mar. 
Perennial 
Meadows. 
No. 995. 
The origin of the word Crocus is, perhaps, too 
uncertain to hazard opinion upon. The ancient 
fabulists employed it as the name of a youth, who 
was said to have “sighed away his life,” and be- 
come a flower, — a poetical idea, worthy of Ovid. 
Notwithstanding we have figured upwards of nine 
hundred and ninety ornaments of the garden, the 
numerous beautiful varieties of Crocus vernus, 
which are present eveiy where, and by eveiy body 
admired, have, till now, escaped the pemdl of our 
artist. Eveiy one as naturally looks for Crocuses 
in the flower garden, as for primroses on the hedge- 
bank, when the first warm rays of spring remind 
us that vegetation is waking from its wintiy slum- 
ber. 
The flower which is here first secured, we have 
always esteemed as the most beautiful variety that 
has come under our obseiwation. The first appear- 
ance of its clear white tip, peeping through the 
earth, resting on a rich purple, gradually shading 
into a delicate lilac, has never failed to excite the 
admiration of every one who has seen it. We re- 
ceived a single bulb of it, some years ago, without 
