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Fall planting flower bulbs (2727 words) |
 | The impressive Crown Imperial has a bundle of red bell-like flowers all around the stem and a whimsical crown of green leaves. |
 | The impressive Crown Imperial has a bundle of yellow bell-like flowers all around the stem and a whimsical crown of green leaves. |
 | Snowdrops are probably the very first flowers to peep their heads through the ground at the end of the winter, as soon as the snow melts. |
| The American Flower Garden: Chapter 13 (7699 words) |
 | Or, some of the earliest flowering bulbs may be planted between rows of tulips and hyacinths in a formal bed, for they have acted their little part and modestly withdrawn from the stage by the time those prime donne appear. |
 | Their flowers come later than those of the shallow-bedded ones, it is true, but they are usually larger and of a stouter substance. |
 | Early flowering tulips commend themselves not only because they come at the most ecstatic season of the year, and set the garden ablaze with rich colour when fires are still comfortable indoors, but because they have finished their show when it is time to transplant annuals from the hotbeds to the garden. |