. The school garden book. School gardens. PETtlANTH TyBC There are a great many varieties of these Trumpet Daffo- dils, the differences between them being shown in the varying colors of trumpet and perianth, as well as in the shape and size of the blossom as a whole. The different sorts varygreatly as to earliness, so that one may easily have a long season of flowering by selecting varieties which bloom in succession. Princeps is one of the earliest and most satisfactory of these sorts, either for in-door or out-door plant- ing. It is a beautiful flower, with a light sulphur yellow per- ianth
. The school garden book. School gardens. PETtlANTH TyBC There are a great many varieties of these Trumpet Daffo- dils, the differences between them being shown in the varying colors of trumpet and perianth, as well as in the shape and size of the blossom as a whole. The different sorts varygreatly as to earliness, so that one may easily have a long season of flowering by selecting varieties which bloom in succession. Princeps is one of the earliest and most satisfactory of these sorts, either for in-door or out-door plant- ing. It is a beautiful flower, with a light sulphur yellow per- ianth expanding about three inches, and a clear yellow trumpet reaching a height of more than one inch and of good length. The bulbs are inexpensive. Spurius, or single Von Sion, is an all-yellow vari- ety somewhat less attrac- ti^e than Princeps, partly because the flower stalks are likely to be rather short, although this doubt- less depends a good deal upon the size of the bulbs and the treatment tlicy receive. Trumpet Major is a golden-yellow variety, which has been \erv largely grown, but now seems to be generally replaced by. Trumpet Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weed, Clarence Moores, 1864-1947; Emerson, Philip, 1865-. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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