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plant so suitable for pot culture, Dielytra spectabilis, with its 
graceful drooping spikes of rosy pink flowers. These are the 
standard spring flowering hardy plants so fashionable now for spring 
gardening. They flower in conjunction with the grand display of 
spring flowering bulbs. 
Among spring bulbs we have first the noble Hyacinth, with its 
magnificent spikes of fragrant waxy-looking bells, of nearly every 
shade of colour. You need not purchase the new or costly named 
A BALCONY GAUDEN. 
sorts of this charming flower. Older sorts for spring display in 
masses can be had very cheap, and flower j List as well and sometimes 
better than the costly sorts. The Tulip is the Queen of Spring 
flowers, and the grandest of all for balcony display. Nothing can 
excel the effectiveness of a mass of its magnificent blooms. They 
can be had for a few pence per dozen. The Tulip is closely followed 
in the order of merit by the Crocus. Every one knows and loves 
the charming little Crocus, with its yellow, blue, white, and variously 
