This is designed for the advanced, almost the professional
gardener; or in the amateur field, the specialist interested
primarily in "little bulbs". The term is far more inclusive than
one might think. It embraces a wide range the seasons round, from
the earliest snowdrops, squills and daffodils, to hardy cyclamens,
colchicum and crocuses, wood sorrels, little iris, ixias,
tritonias, freesias, the lily family including such items as
chiondoxia, mariposa tulips, fritellaria, hyacinth, on to trillium,
wild tulips, clusiana and amaryllis - and many others whose names
are much less familiar. The substance of the text is fairly
technical, but it is lightened by personal experience, interchange
of data on time of bloom, difficulty of culture, proper planting
season, failures as well as successes. Primarily the book is based
on two gardens:- Miss Lawrence's own small city backyard in North
Carolina, and Mr. Krippendorf's acres of virgin forestland in
southern Ohio. But in following her creed that no one can garden
alone, she has drawn from gardeners from Texas to New England, she
has read and written and gardened- and shared her findings with
contagious enthusiasm. Final chapters tell of little bulbs indoors
in pots- and sources of choice material the country over. (Kirkus
Reviews)
"A beautifully written book."--"The Garden Journal"
"A few garden writers offer prose that goes beyond how to spade
and spray to convey the experience and pleasures of gardening. The
late Elizabeth Lawrence was such a writer."--"Southern Living"
"First published in 1957 and out-of-print for many years, this
is a delightfully written and enormously informative introduction
to the fascinating variety of little bulbs available to the
gardener. The author discusses a wide variety of plants, both
familiar and little-known, including crocuses, species daffodils,
hardy cyclamen and lily-family members such as "Brodiaea, Bessera,
" and "Calochortus."--American Horticulturist"
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