DOG'STOOTH VIOLET

The red and white varieties are as hardy as any plant in our gardens,

and by their neat habit and elegant leaves and flowers they are

admirably adapted to plant in quantities in the front of a rockery, in

either peat or sandy loam and leaf-mould. They are equally suitable for

edging small beds in gardens where spring flowers are systematically

grown; in fact, they are true 'spring bedders.' Autumn is the proper

time to plant the bulbs. But Dog's-tooth Violets are also worth growing

in pots, especially where an unheated 'Alpine house' is kept for plants

of this class. Several bulbs may be put in a pot of the 48-size.





FERRARIA--see TIGRIDIA, page 350