Jan. The Opening Year. Part 7
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This section is from the book "The Garden Week By Week Throughout The Year", by Walter P. Wright. Also available from Amazon: The Garden Week by Week Throughout the Year.
Jan. The Opening Year. Part 7
Bulbs, Tubers, And Other Roots
We have not quite done with the seedsman's catalogue when we have made the selections of vegetable and flower seeds that we want for our year's supply, because it generally contains a short list of bulbs, tubers, and other roots which are planted in spring. Here is a table of these plants. In a few cases, notably tuberous Begonias, Gloxinias, and Streptocarpus, we have already seen that they can be raised from seed, but flowers can be got quicker by planting or potting tubers:
Kind. | Species or Variety. | Colour. | Greenhouse or Garden. |
Achimenes . . | Mixed | Various | Greenhouse |
Agapanthus | Umbellatus | Blue | Tubs outdoors |
Amaryllis . . | Mixed hybrid | Various | Greenhouse |
Anemone . . | Alderborough | Various | Garden |
,, • • | St. Brigid | Various | Garden |
,, • • | Fulgens | Scarlet | Garden |
Begonia. . . | Tuberous | Various | Both |
Kind. | Species or Variety. | Colour. | Greenhouse or Garden. |
Calla (Arum) . | The Godfrey | White | Greenhouse |
Canna . | Many varieties | Various | Both |
Dahlia . . . | Many varieties | Various | Garden |
Dielytra. . . | Spectabilis | Pink | Both |
Galtonia . . | Candicans | White | Garden |
Gesnera. . . | Mixed hybrid | Various | Greenhouse |
Gladiolus . . | Mixed hybrid | Various | Garden |
Gloxinia . . | Prize | Various | Greenhouse |
Helleborus. . | Niger (Christmas Rose) | White | Garden |
Hemerocallis . | Flava (Day Lily) | Yellow | Garden |
Hepatica . . | Various | Various | Garden |
Hyacinthus | See Galtonia | ||
Irises . . . | Various | Various | Garden |
Kniphofia . . | Various | Various | Garden |
Liliums . . . | Various | Various | Garden |
Common | White | Garden | |
Montbretia. . | Various | Mostly orange | Garden |
Paeony . . . | Herbaceous | Various | Garden |
Various | Various | Garden | |
Solomon's Seal | Common | Greenish white | Garden |
Spiraea . . . | Aruncus | White | Garden |
„ ... | Filipendula flore pleno | White | Garden |
,, ... | Palmata | Crimson | Garden |
Streptocarpus . | Hybrid | Various | Greenhouse |
Tritoma . . | Various | Various | Garden |
Tropoeolum . | Polyphyllum | Yellow | Garden |
,, • | Speciosum | Scarlet | Garden |
,, | Tricolorum | Scarlet, yellow and black | Garden |
Vallota . . . | Purpurea (Scarborough Lily) | Scarlet | Greenhouse |
The bulb catalogues proper are published in autumn, and in the September or October chapter I (Jan. The Opening Year) will rifle their contents and make selections. The fruit and tree and shrub catalogues also appear in autumn.
Catalogues of hardy plants, of bedding plants, and of greenhouse plants generally, are published in spring as a rule. I will consider them in due course. All classes of plants will then be dealt with at the appropriate seasons.
Before parting from the seed catalogues, I should like to throw out the hint that those who like to leave the choice of varieties to the dealer, merely telling him the size of the garden, and inviting a quotation for one of his special "collections," will get more seeds for a given sum than by ordering the different kinds individually. This applies equally to vegetables and flowers.
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