. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 6286. All tlie sorts of crocus have been, time out of mind, and still are, great ornaments to the garden; the spring sorts coming into flower in February and March, and the autumn sorts in September and October. The color of the spring crocus in its wild
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 6286. All tlie sorts of crocus have been, time out of mind, and still are, great ornaments to the garden; the spring sorts coming into flower in February and March, and the autumn sorts in September and October. The color of the spring crocus in its wild state, in Switzerland, is white with a purple base; it is considered as naturalised in Eng- land, but, when found wild, is almost always of a yellow color. The autumn crocus, or saffron, is also found wild in some places, and considered as naturalised ; but it ap- pears to be an African plant, which its Arabic name, sa/iafaran, seems to justify, and introduced originally in Edward the Third's time. Its color is generally purple or blue, as is that of most of the autumn varieties in cultivation at present. 6287. Varieties. None of these are double. Of the spring crocus, Parkinson has enumerated twenty-seven varieties; the fundamental colors of which are blue, purple, yellow, and white. Miller recites twelve as leading sorts. Mason's catalogue for 1820 mentions "twenty named sorts," besides the light, dark, and striped purple, cloth of gold, the Scotch crocus beautifully striped, the white, the large and small yellow, and several striped sorts. The Dutch are continually producing new varieties, as are some florists in this country, of which Haworth (Hort. Trans, i. 122.) may be cited as an in- stance. Of the autumn crocus, Parkinson has enumerated four, and Ray six varieties. Miller has only four : the sweet-smelling, of a deep blue ; the mountain, of a paler blue ; the many-flowering, bluish; and the small-flowering. Most of these varieties are now lost. 6288. Criter
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