. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. returning soil tothe ranunculus bed, where he will plant someof the finest in about a week, say the loth, andthese will be in full bloom in June. In theshed there, the man is potting the large rootsof dahlias, which will be put in the propa-gating house to push their shoots, and thesewill be cut off close to the bottom, and beingstruck in a small hot-bed, will become plantsready to plant out in May. If the weathercontinues fine, he will sow many of the annualsin the border, but there will not be muchmore done thi
. The Annals of Horticulture and Year-Book of Information on Practical Gardening. returning soil tothe ranunculus bed, where he will plant someof the finest in about a week, say the loth, andthese will be in full bloom in June. In theshed there, the man is potting the large rootsof dahlias, which will be put in the propa-gating house to push their shoots, and thesewill be cut off close to the bottom, and beingstruck in a small hot-bed, will become plantsready to plant out in May. If the weathercontinues fine, he will sow many of the annualsin the border, but there will not be muchmore done this month. The place may bekept clean, and on fine days he will earth upthe celery, but very little else. THE great variety of this gay and verywelcome spring flower renders it compara-tively easy to get hold of a few that, in somedegree, approach the standard laid down; and THE CROCUS. 03 if we examine them by the side of the manyvarieties which are the reverse of the standard,the most indifferent of us would be astonishedat the superiority of one over the other. We. have seen more than fifty named sorts in onecollection, some of them broad in the petal,and when half expanded, touching each other,and forming a cup; by the side of these wehave seen others with very narrow, thin,and pointed petals, forming, when half ex-panded, a mean-looking star, poor and con-temptible as a flower, and not worth a placein the meanest wilderness, while the otherscould be had. The culture of this flower issimple; it is very hardy, no degree of coldseems to have the slightest effect on it; and,although it grows finer in some soils thanothers, there is no kind but it will grow andflower in. TO GROW FOB INCREASE. Plant the finest bulbs that can be had, sixinches apart every way, and four inches deep,a clear three inches of soil above the will do best in light sandy loam, andenriched by the addition of half its bulkof cow dung, or the soil from cut turves,rotted; they require ne
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