. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 7. tarn ins ginger and many wild plants (Fig 287 also. Fig o3 p 3 ) pips the flowering crowns ot lily of the vallev and certain other dormant fasciculated fleshy roots like those of peonies ranunculus etc A wallet) of bulbs IS shown m Fig 2S8 The tiue or feeding roots grow generalh from the 1 ase of the bulb th
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 7. tarn ins ginger and many wild plants (Fig 287 also. Fig o3 p 3 ) pips the flowering crowns ot lily of the vallev and certain other dormant fasciculated fleshy roots like those of peonies ranunculus etc A wallet) of bulbs IS shown m Fig 2S8 The tiue or feeding roots grow generalh from the 1 ase of the bulb the stems floweis n 1 t In ti 11 th 1 1 t the 1 ill i the e\ Tl II cessor Vtt i tl 1 i bulb and th i t 1 i tl The bulb is then m v d u this state of rest lastinâ SIX m nths that bulbs ai tiansported easily and s t nent it lequired after wl foliage and flowers de-i (1 and perfectionâ conditioi bulb had remained m its 11 Bulbous flowering plant with flower loving people and interest m growmg th flowers of remarkable bea i class of plants and man\ giant The\ cjni] ri tan hide away or may be renn \ ed 1 their places may be occupied by (tl ering plants Not the least am on t, 1 II is their ease of culture and the i I perfection with which their floweis iie ( l i I lu lei suitable conditions Among bulbous plants are many that are sufStiently hardy to withstand the seventy of our northern winters The "kinds that are suitable are nearly all dormant in the fall, which is the proper time for planting them, and they will flower the coming season. In March or earlier, spring is ushered in with the blooming of snowdrops, chionodoxas, anemones, scillas, crocus, winter aconites, bulboeodiums, etc., followi cinths, tulips, narcissus a appear the unapproachabl' dicentras, etc., followed in ; with peonies, irises, heni' tritomas, etc. All these ai and parks. Gardeners usually think of bulbs as divided into two classes, âhardy and tender, or those which stand freez- ing and those which do no
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