. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 280 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. much crowded in the pots, but three or four in a five-inch pot are ample, or single bulbs may be put in three-inch pots. The best soil is a compost of two parts of loam, two of coarse sand, and one part each of peat, leaf-mould, and well-decayed cow- manure. Water should not be given until growth commences. Instead of potting the whole stock at once, when it is large, a portion may be kept and potted a month or six weeks later, so as to obtain a successional bloom. By gently forcing a few of the earliest-potted bulbs, t
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 280 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. much crowded in the pots, but three or four in a five-inch pot are ample, or single bulbs may be put in three-inch pots. The best soil is a compost of two parts of loam, two of coarse sand, and one part each of peat, leaf-mould, and well-decayed cow- manure. Water should not be given until growth commences. Instead of potting the whole stock at once, when it is large, a portion may be kept and potted a month or six weeks later, so as to obtain a successional bloom. By gently forcing a few of the earliest-potted bulbs, the flowering season may be extended from Christmas time till June. In basket- culture the bulbs should be planted all round the interior of the baskets. To prevent the soil from running through there should be a good layer of moss between the sides of the basket and soil. The bulbs produce an abundance of off- sets, so that pro- pagation by other means is unneces- sary. Leucoj um [Snowflake). — The Snowflakes, like the Snow- drops, have been garden favourites for generations. They are all more or less hardy, but vary a good deal in constitution, some being weakly, others very strong in growth. L. vemum is the earliest to flower, and hardy enough to brave the cold and wet of February. It is somewhat like a Snowdrop, but the flowers are bell-shaped, and white, with each of the petals tipped with greenish- yellow. It grows from nine to twelve inches high. There is a larger and stronger-growing variety of it that habitually bears twin-flowered stems, and has the petals tipped with yellow. This is known as L. Carpathicum. This Snowflake (called also Eri- nosma vemum) is a native of moist pastures through- out Central Europe .It flourishes in an open sunny border of light, loamy soil. The Summer Snowflake (L. eestivum) is much taller and more robust than the Spring one. The flowers, produced in early summer, are white -and drooping, from four to eight on each stem. Two other Snowfl
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