amylsacks

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Posted: 30 Nov 2012


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Garden Bulbs In Color (14), 1938/1945

Garden Bulbs In Color (14), 1938/1945
L: "The Mariposa Tulip, so named by early Spanish settlers of California, where it grows abundantly, took its name appropriately. Mariposa is Spanish for butterfly... These dainty Western American natives are found along the Pacific Coast from Washington to Mexico..."

C: "Few plants have been more appropriately named than Chionodoxa, which Greek for Glory-of-the-Snow. Introduced to American gardeners less than a century ago, these dainty star-shaped flowers are native to the mountains of Crete..."

R: "Known familiarly as Indian Shot, because of its hard, round seeds, the Canna has been greatly developed as an important summer-flowering plant in America, as well as in France There are a score or more of Canna species in South America and the tropics... The name is merely an old term for a reed-like plant..."

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