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HANDBOOKS OF PRACTICAL GARDENING--V

EDITED BY HARRY ROBERTS


THE BOOK OF BULBS

[Illustration: EARLY TULIPS]




THE BOOK OF BULBS

BY

S. ARNOTT, F.R.H.S.

TOGETHER WITH AN INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER ON THE BOTANY
OF BULBS BY THE EDITOR

JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD
LONDON AND NEW YORK.      MCMI

_Printed by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh._




CONTENTS


                                                                 PAGE


Editor's Note                                                       x

Concerning Bulbs                                                   xi

Introductory                                                        1
    Value of Bulbs--Bulbs in Grass--Arrangement in Borders--Bulbs
    for Cutting--Propagating Bulbs--Diseases of Bulbs.

Hardy Bulbs                                                         7
    Aconitums--Alliums--Alstr merias--Anemones.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        15
    Amaryllises--Anthericums--Antholyzas--Apios--Arisae--Arums--
    Asphodelines--Asphodeluses--Belamcanda--Bloomerias--Brodiaeas
    --Bulbocodiums.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        21
    Calochorti and Cyclobothras--Camassias--Colchicums--
    Convallarias--Forcing Lily of the Valley--Corydalises--
    Crinums--Crocosmias and Montbretias--Crocuses.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        29
    Cyclamens--Dicentras--Dieramas--Eranthis--Eremuruses--
    Erythroniums--Eucomises.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        35
    Fritillarias--Funkias--Galanthuses--Galtonias--Gladioli--
    Hemerocallises.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        42
    Hyacinths--Hyacinths in Pots--Scillas--Puschkinias--
    Chionodoxas--Chionoscillas--Muscaris.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        48
    Irises--Kniphofias--Lapeyrousias--Leucojums.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        54
    Liliums--Liliums in Pots--Malvastrum--Merenderas--Millas--
    Narcissi--Narcissi in Pots.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        60
    Ornithogalums--Oxalises--Paeonias--Ranunculuses--Romuleas--
    Sanguinarias--Sternbergias--Schizostylis--Tecophilaeas--
    Trilliums.

Hardy Bulbs                                                        65
    Tulips--Zephyranthes.

Half-hardy Bulbs                                                   72
    Acidantheras--Albucas--Alstroemerias--Androstephiums--
    Besseras--Boussingaultias--Bravoas--Cypellas--Dahlias--
    Galaxias--Geissorhizas and Hesperanthas.

Half-hardy Bulbs                                                   77
    Gladioli--Ixias--Sparaxises--Babianas--Morphixias--Tritonias.

Half-hardy Bulbs                                                   83
    Ixiolirions--Moraeas--Ornithogalums--Oxalises--Phaedranassas
    --Pancratiums--Tigridias--Zephyranthes--Cooperias.

Greenhouse and Stove Bulbs                                         90
    Achimenes--Alocasias--Amorphophalluses--Arisaemas--Arums--
    Begonias--Bomareas--Caladiums.

Greenhouse and Stove Bulbs                                         97
    Clivias--Colocasias--Crinums--Cyclamens--Cyrtanthuses--
    Eucharises and Urceocharis--Eurycles.

Greenhouse and Stove Bulbs                                        102
    Freesias--Gloxinias--Haemanthuses--Hippeastrums.

Greenhouse and Stove Bulbs                                        109
    Lachenalias--Nerines and Lycorises--Pancratiums and
    Hymenocallises--Richardias--Sprekelias--Tuberoses--Vallotas
    --Watsonias--Zephyranthes.




ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                                 PAGE

EARLY TULIPS
    (from a drawing by Ethel Roskruge)                  _Frontispiece_

SNOWDROPS IN GRASS                                                  3

ALLIUM TRIQUETRUM                                                   9

WHITE CROCUSES IN GRASS                                            25

EREMURUS ROBUSTUS                                                  31

GLADIOLUS, "THE BRIDE"                                             39

SNOWFLAKES                                                         51

TULIPS CARPETED BY ARABIS                                          67

LILIUM AURATUM                                                     85

LILIUM CANDIDUM                                                    93

WHITE SCILLAS                                                     103




EDITOR'S NOTE


Like many another distinguished gardener, Mr Arnott is a Scotsman,
being a native of Dumfries, and now