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Hardy Perennials and Old-Fashioned Flowers

by John Wood

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Muscari Racemosum

Nat. Ord. Liliaceæ.

This is the commonest species, and although very pleasing, suffers by a comparison with the above blue kind, being more dwarf and the flowers less bright. The best time to transplant the bulbs is when the tops have died off, and the choicer sorts of these, as well as all other bulbs whose foliage dies off early in summer, should have something to mark their situation when in their dormant state.

Cultivation and flowering period, as for M. botryoides.

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