HYACINTHUS CANDICANS.
The bulb under this heading is one that amateur gardeners should become acquainted with. Unlike the hyacinths, there is no necessity to procure the bulbs and plant them during the autumn, for it is much better to delay the planting till spring. It is not an expensive bulb, and when ease of culture is added to this, there is no excuse for its absence from the flower gardens of our readers. In light soils it is rarely necessary to trouble about lifting the bulbs, once they are planted, but in others of a sticky nature it is advisable to lift them just as the foliage has nearly finished dying off in the autumn. If dried and stored in the same manner as gladiolus conns, they will be quite all right. If planted in bold groups of five to nine, theylook very imposing when their flowering stems reach up from four 1 to five feet. Only large, first-class bulbs will yield spikes of such dimensions. The flowers are large, white, pendant, and bell-shaped,, suggesting a giant lily of the valley spike.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 7
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182HYACINTHUS CANDICANS. Otago Daily Times, Issue 20708, 4 May 1929, Page 7
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