Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . out a foot wide, and consists of a dense array ofdark green rush-like leaves six or eight inches long, whichin August and September are accompanied by thousands sunny border out-of-doors. I do not know if they willbear severe frost, but intend to try them this year. A thirdspecies, Natalensis, has yellowish, fragrant flowers. Colchicums.—No picture in autumn surpasses an Eng-lish meadow studded all over with the pale purpleCrocus-like flowers of the Meadow Saffron. A similareffect may be produced in the garden by planti
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . out a foot wide, and consists of a dense array ofdark green rush-like leaves six or eight inches long, whichin August and September are accompanied by thousands sunny border out-of-doors. I do not know if they willbear severe frost, but intend to try them this year. A thirdspecies, Natalensis, has yellowish, fragrant flowers. Colchicums.—No picture in autumn surpasses an Eng-lish meadow studded all over with the pale purpleCrocus-like flowers of the Meadow Saffron. A similareffect may be produced in the garden by planting thebulbs thickly in grass on sloping banks near water, orwhere a fair supply of moisture is available. They areemployed in this way about the lake at Kew, and also inthe wild garden. C. speciosum, C. Parkinsoni and are not sufficiently plentiful to be used in thisway, but it would pay any bulb grower to work up a largestock of these three large-flowered handsome species forplanting on a large scale. Crocuses.—The species of Crocus which flower in the. Fig. 50.—Nelumbo lutea, the Water Chinquapin, in a Massachusetts pond.—See page 373. of pure white star-like flowers three inches across. Theplant is not injured by frost and it transplants as easily asChives. Tigridias.—All the Tigridias of the Pavonia or Grandi-flora section are excellent plants for beds to flower inAugust and September. They are beautiful with us now,white, cream, yellow, orange and variegated varieties,which have names, but no two dealers names agree, and ifone orders white he will probably get orange or , they are all beautiful, and mixed beds of them arevery showy at this time of year. We lift them early inwinter and store them in dry sand, replanting in May. Tulbaghia alliacea and violacea are two elegant littleCape plants with narrow leaves and tall slender scapesof lavender or rose-purple flowers. They flower freelyduring summer and autumn, and are perfectly happy in
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