TUBEROUS, BULBOUS, AND HERBACEOUS PLANTS, Continued 
Planting softens architectural rigidity 
Austria. Plant four to five feet in height. Flowers 
soft chrome-yellow. 
flaccida. Native to South Florida. Stems four to 
six feet tall. Sulphur yellow flowers borne all 
summer. 
Hungaria. Three to four feet in height. Flowers a 
lovely shade of delicate rose-pink. 
Indiana. Five to six feet high. Rich orange-colored 
flowers. 
Italia. About the same height as Hungaria. Flowers 
golden yellow, blotched with orange. 
Maros. Four to five feet tall. Flowers creamy-white. 
Best of the whites. 
COLOCASIA [10] antiquorum Var. illustris. Trop¬ 
ical. A swamp plant closely related to and re¬ 
sembling elephant ear. Leaves are smaller, 
blotched with dark green and violet. 
CRINUM [11]. Tropics. This group includes our 
showiest flowering bulbs for spring and summer 
bloom. The plants are evergreen and very similar 
in habit to the Amaryllis, sending up flower stalks 
from the bulb with large lily-like, fragrant flow¬ 
ers from four to twenty in number, depending on 
the variety. They may be used in groups as part 
of the planting or in front of other shrubbery 
very effectively. They prefer a moist, heavy soil, 
but most of the sorts will do well in higher, drier 
situations. Following are the sorts that have been 
found to be the most satisfactory. 
C. amabile. Rather tall growing with many-flowered 
spikes of glossy pink, deliciously scented flowers. 
C. americanum. A native species especially suited to 
moist places. Large white, lily-like flowers. 
C. campanulatum. Wavy - margined strap leaves, 
flow’ers bell-shaped, white striped dark pink. 
C. fimbriatulum. Dwarf grower with large white in¬ 
tensely fragrant flowers, striped light pink. 
C. giganieum. Well suited to moist places. Foliage 
erect, rich dark green. Flowers pure white, very 
large and fragrant, borne at intervals throughout 
the year. 
C. hybridum. J. C. Harvey. Fine hybrid with clear 
light rose pink flowers. Free bloomer. 
C. Kirkii. Flowers large, white with reddish purple 
stripe showing through to inside of petals borne 
on tall purplish stems. 
C. longifolium. Very hardy, spring flowering with 
large umbels of fragrant white flowers faintly 
tinged with pink. 
C. virginicum. Choice hybrid from England. Flow¬ 
ers large, white striped rose-red. Early flowering. 
New Hybrids 
All early spring flowering and with heavy umbels 
of solid colored flowers. 
C. Cecil Houdyshel. Very early bloomer with large 
soft rose-colored flowers on tall stems that last 
over a long period. 
C. Louis Bosenquet. One of the earliest to flower 
and perhaps the most profuse, flowering through 
February and March with scattered blooms 
throughout the summer. Flowers are a soft rose- 
pink, shading to pure white on the tips of the 
petals. 
C. Powelli. Another very hardy Crinum with rose 
colored flowers coming in the early spring. 
C. Powelli alba. The finest white-flowered variety 
and very early flowering with open spreading 
flowers resembling a pure white Amaryllis. 
C. Peacbblow. Seedling of amabile, which it re¬ 
sembles in form, but the flowers are a lovely 
shade of soft peachblow pink. Fairly early flow¬ 
ering. 
C. Mrs. Ellen Bosenquet. Early summer flowering 
with numerous, large, dark rose-colored flowers 
on strong stem. 
Heliconia 
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