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zinnias, verbenas, godetias, canary creeper, and 
everlastings are among the number. 
One of the best-known autumn flow r ering 
bulbs is the saffron or autumn crocus or col- 
chicum. It has a mauve flower, but there are 
some named varieties of deeper purple shades, 
and a white ; the leaves of all of them are large 
and glossy, come up in the spring, and there are 
none to be seen at the same time as the flowers. 
Sternbergia lutea is a yellow flowering crocus¬ 
like bulb which is very pretty, but children 
would find it more difficult to procure. An 
autumn bulb easy to grow is Hyacinthus candi- 
cans, which has little white bell-shaped flowers, 
and grows three or four feet high. There are 
also late flowering kinds of gladiolus, with tall 
spikes of brilliant flowers of bright scarlet or 
many shades of pink. 
One more plant that I will tell you of 
is different from all these others, as it is 
the seed - vessels that are showy, and not 
the flower — the winter cherry, or Physalis. 
These seeds are enclosed in little bright scarlet 
bags about an inch long, which hang round a 
plant about a foot high. There is a new 
variety with its red bags twice the size, growing 
on a taller stem, called Physalis franchetti. 
Any one of these seeds will grow if planted 
in a sunny place. If cut when ripe and dried 
