Introduction  ix

Preface  1

1. The First Flower  7

2. "Things as Help Themselves"  21

3. Snowdrops and Snowflakes  27

4. Squills and Daffodils  38

5. Hardy Cyclamen  81

6. Colchicums and Crocuses  90

7. Wood Sorrels  119

8. The Iris Family  129

9. The Lily Family  151

10. Some Amaryllids  201

11. Little Bulbs in Pots  225

12. Sources of Bulbs  236

For the Armchair Gardener  241

Index  243

Allen Lacy

“Lawrence is one of those garden writers who bring literature, philosophy, landscape design, dirt gardening, and the voices of her friends and neighbors into the garden. Her books—A Southern Garden, The Little Bulbs, Gardens in Winter—are enlivened by her genius for trading both plants and stories, but this one is particularly enriched by the lively notices from the Mississippi Market Bulletin, a biweekly published by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture that advertised everything from hogs to the bulbs and plants that hard-working farm women hoped to sell for ‘mad’ money.”—Natural History

“Lawrence is one of those garden writers who bring literature, philosophy, landscape design, dirt gardening, and the voices of her friends and neighbors into the garden. Her books—A Southern Garden, The Little Bulbs, Gardens in Winter—are enlivened by her genius for trading both plants and stories, but this one is particularly enriched by the lively notices from the Mississippi Market Bulletin, a biweekly published by the Mississippi Department of Agriculture that advertised everything from hogs to the bulbs and plants that hard-working farm women hoped to sell for ‘mad’ money.”—Natural History

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