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SPECIAL AND IMPORT PRICES FOR FALL OF 1902. 
Narcissus Barri Conspicuous Naturalized.— From The Garden. 
Spring Flowering Bulbs. 
FROM GARDEN AND FOREST. 
This is the season of the year when the catalogues of the Dutch bulb growers should be carefully studied, and when 
people should determine what bulbs they will plant for the decoration of their gardens in Spring, and where and in what 
manner they should bo planted. The bulbs need not be placed in the ground until October, but it is well, in all that relates 
to the garden, to take time by the forelock, and not to put off the planning of planting operations until the planting time 
actually comes. 
The cultivation of hardy Spring flowering bulbs is one of the most delightful, as it is one of the most satisfactory, of all 
'orms of gardening. Many of the plants classed under this head yield flowers which no inhabitant of the Tropics can excel in 
delicate charm or gorgeous splendor. No plants are more easily cultivated, and none give so much pleasure for the small 
amount of money which they cost. Many of them increase and multiply without care beyond the first planting, and, once 
established, go on (lowering year after year almost indefinitely. 
There is a charm in these early spring flowers, appearing among the melting snows, the first indication that the long 
Winter has come to an end, which each year grows stronger and stronger, and which no other feeling inspired by the con¬ 
templation of Nature’s workings ever quite resembles. Men tire of the most splendid Orchids of the Tropics, of the masses 
of color which modern horticulture spreads over the Chinese Azaleas, of all the garden show and gorgeousness of these later 
days, but who has ever tired of a Snowdrop or a Daffodil in early Spring? 
There is a much larger variety of hardy Spring-flowering bulbous plants than are usually met with in American gardens, 
which, by a proper selection, may be made gay or interesting with them from March until July, or from the time when the 
earliest Snowdrops and Crocuses appear until the blooming of the so-called Spanish and English Irises in mid-Summer. 
Many new species and varieties of the Crocus have been introduced into gardens of late years, and the blooming period of 
the plants of this genus has, in this way, been materially prolonged. Among Scillas there are many charming flowers bloom¬ 
ing iir succession during six or seven weeks. The number of different Narcissi which can now be grown is almost endless. 
The attention which has been bestowed upon these plants of late years in England, by botanists and by gardeners, is one of 
tne most interesting phases of modern horticulture. It has resulted in the reintroduction of many species of Narcissus long 
lost to gardens, and the production of many new hybrids of more than passing interest and value. The Tulip and Hyacinth 
are too well known to need mention here, except to call attention to the fact that many of the species of Tulip (late flowering 
Tulips) which have been described at different times in the columns of this journal exceed in beauty, as they certainly do in 
interest, those of the more familiar garden races. They should find place in every garden, with quantities of Narcissus and 
Scillas, Alliums and Snowdrops, Snowflakes and Crocuses, Frittilaris and Dogtooth Violets, Ornithogalums nnd Lilies of the 
Valley. There never was a garden in which there were too many of these plants or in which some corner could not have been 
found which might have been made more attractive by their presence. 
