. Vick's floral guide. EGETABLE FIRE-CRACKER, Broduea is one of the most curious and interesting of the California plants. The flowers are a little larger than Chinese fire-crackers, nearlythe same shape and color, though the scarlet ismore brilliant. The clusters are very large,and if our recollection is not at fault, we meas-ured them eight inches across, and at a dis-tance the resemblance to a pendant bunch offire-crackers is certainly very striking. Thebulb grows deep in the ground, as do nearlyall the California bulbs. The flowers retaintheir bright color for a long time, af
. Vick's floral guide. EGETABLE FIRE-CRACKER, Broduea is one of the most curious and interesting of the California plants. The flowers are a little larger than Chinese fire-crackers, nearlythe same shape and color, though the scarlet ismore brilliant. The clusters are very large,and if our recollection is not at fault, we meas-ured them eight inches across, and at a dis-tance the resemblance to a pendant bunch offire-crackers is certainly very striking. Thebulb grows deep in the ground, as do nearlyall the California bulbs. The flowers retaintheir bright color for a long time, after everyparticle of moisture is dried out, and we havethem now, six months after being gathered, ofvery good color. From forty to fifty flowersare often found on a single stalk. The rootis edible and sought for by the Indians, andabounds in a mucilaginous or starchy substance, very apparent when a bulb is only slightlybruised. The Brodisea belongs to the Lily family, and is found mainly along the northern coast of 141. California, on the tops of the mountains, in gravelly and rocky soils, in half-open woods, amongoaks and conifers. Our engraving does no justice to the flowers, and we may illustrate it in ournext chromo. The single blossom is of natural size. Seeds 25 els. a package; bulbs 50 cts. each. BOMNEYA COULTEEL A new and peculiar flower, belonging to the Poppy family, which we did not meet in Cali-fornia, but of which we often heard. The plant was represented to us as two feet or more in height, with white, fragrant flowers quite fiveinches in diameter. The petals are pure white,,stamens bright yellow, foliage pale green, some-what glaucus. Flowers fragant, and often fromforty to fifty adorning the plant at one time. Wehave made an engraving from a drawing sent us-by a California florist whom we engaged to collectour seed. Packets of seed, 25 els. DELPHINIUM NUDICAULE. Among the beautiful flowers that adorn the Cali-fornia Mountains, we saw nothing really more-decorati
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