. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . I 564 •fcerbaceous plants. attention. They thrive best in a good rich loam and needno prepared beds. The smaller species of the Bulbocodium section growbest in open positions in gravelly soil. They are fine forplanting in barren lawns or in rockeries. The poets nar-cissus may be grown on the margin of a stream among thegrass, in half-shady positions, or in rockeries on the borderof a small rill of water. The best daffodils are: , the Lenten lily. Leaves flat, erect, glaucous,several
. Lawns and gardens. How to plant and beautify the home lot, the pleasure ground and garden . I 564 •fcerbaceous plants. attention. They thrive best in a good rich loam and needno prepared beds. The smaller species of the Bulbocodium section growbest in open positions in gravelly soil. They are fine forplanting in barren lawns or in rockeries. The poets nar-cissus may be grown on the margin of a stream among thegrass, in half-shady positions, or in rockeries on the borderof a small rill of water. The best daffodils are: , the Lenten lily. Leaves flat, erect, glaucous,several to a scape; flowers solitary, bright perianth is white in the variety princeps, pale yellow § site % •*VvAS ??ffSSOty -v>-fv. -m FIQ. 161—POETS NARCISSUS (NARCISSUS POETICUS). in bicobr, while the crown is bright yellow; major hasvery large flowers, minor unusually small ones and growsonly about six inches high. N. incomparabilis, peerlessnarcissus; larger than the preceding species but with ashorter crown; flowers on simple scapes about a foot high,solitary, two inches and a half wide, with a deep yellow-crown and somewhat paler perianth. In aurantius thecrown is orange-yellow. JV. odorus is similar in color andhabit but bears two or three flowers on a scape. Herbaceous plants. 365 The best species of the Bulbocodium section are: J\.Bulbocodium, a dwarf species with few grass-like leaves andyellow trumpet-like flowers mi slender scapes rive or sixinches high. N. monophyllus, leaves one to a scape; flow-ers large, nearly white. N. nivalis is a very small varietythree or four inches high : flowers yellow. Species with small crowns are: 2V. poeticus, perhapsthe most beautiful of all narcissi, with snowy whit
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