The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-09
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER SATURDAY NOVEMBER m
Little Hardy Bulbs.

Under this heading we mean the sturdy littye flowers that push their way through the melting ice and snow sometimes as early as February and bring us the first visible evidence of the passing of winter and near ap- proaoh of spring. How often we hear the remark 1T must have a bed of those next spring" and then the time of planting is let pass and the next Towering season comes with the re- grets of non-fulfllment.
 The Crocuses are the most generally known, and are in yellow, blue, white, striped with intermediate shadings. We recommend their planting in every pos sible nook and corner; if possible plant in clumps of separate colors in the turf among the shrubs or hardy border, close to the house-any odd spot you can utilize. The scilla siberiea or blue bells is one of the most dazzling blues in the floral Kingdom, the name of their habitat inindicates their extreme hardness. A large bed of Sciilas is a most dazzling sight. Doubtless many of the readers have seen and admired a large bed of them in a garden in the center of tn city. All the gorgeous flow CTS of summer have attracted less at- tention than these modest little flowers when grown in such mass.
 The Chinodoxa (Glory of the Snow) is charming little belshaped flower with white and lilac blossoms, of very graceful appearance and good lasting qualities,
 Another gem Is the Triteleia or star flower, natice of Buenos Ayres. It produces it's lilac shaded flowers on erect individual stems and continues in bloom for several weeks. Now we come to that modest little flower, the Eng lish Snowdrop (Galanthus), small, neat and graceful, succeeding better where partially shaded. Then we have the Grape Hyacinths (Muscari) in both Eblue and white. A charming addition to this class is the plumed variety with
 It's grateful feathery spikes of lilac blue flowers. The Winter-Aconite (Tranthis) adds brilliant yellow to the assortment, Is very hardy and is closely allied to the common buttercup | The Dog's Tooth Violet (Erythroni un1) gives variety of soft pleasing colers, and requires q little shade, thu Leuco5ums (spring snowfake) resem hle mammoth snowdrops, and bloom two or three weeks later. All these lit l tie bulbs require shallow planting, iron two to three inches deep. They can b placed in almost any situation, tht | most pleasing effect is produced b, | planting In the grass where fancy fig ures, letters or monograms are easil. made. and the faotgof their ripeniny | and disappearing before the first cut l ting of grass, gives good chance t get double duty from the lawn. An other unique effect is gained by plant ing in cemetery lots. Can anything b, I more effective or appropriate than grave surrounded by these little flow CTS almost before the thought of sprin ' comes to us. A bulb that flowers late is also worthy of very special mention It is the Spanish Iris. The roots ar small, can be planted very closely 1 very moderate in price and produce the most astonishing range of colors from white through all shades to dee purple, also yellow, bronze, sulphus smoke colored and others peculiarl shaded like some orchids. They bloon about the middle of May and remaii in good Towering conition for quite
 term of years. V.