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in all sorts of places— in the shade, the sun, anywhere. Then we 

 must have two or three tufts, to begin with, of the JDouhle White,^ 

 Double Lilac, Double Yellow, and Double Crimson primroses, all of 

 them loveliest of the lovely, but wanting better places than the 

 common primrose of the hedges, therefore we assign these to the 

 choice border, and have no objection to see a few beds iilled with 

 them. Mr. Webb has thousands of these. 



AuBEiETiAS.— These lovely liitle plants will not thrive anywhere. 

 They must be in open breezy places, not in stuffy, or damp, or 

 vermin-haunting corners. Put them on knolls, and on slopes, and 

 in sunny borders, and leave them alone until they become too large; 

 then take them up in August, and divide, aud plant again. You 

 must have A. deltoidea, A. CampbelUi, and A. Mooreana. They are 

 quite uulit for the plunging or transferring system, not being showy 

 enough, and not flowering well unless left undisturbed. 



Kaecissus. — Plant them in clumps of five to ten bulbs each, 

 and let them remain ; they will spread more and more every year, 

 and flower finely. The best for the rough and ready gardener are, 

 first, the Common Double Yellow ; this will grow anywhere, even in 

 the most shady places ; next, for the borders, i'v'. bulbocodium, N. 

 hifrons, N. odo?^us, N. consjncuous, and N. pseudo-narcissus. These 

 six sorts are enough, but the collector may have sixty, and they are 

 all pretty. Any soil will suit them, and they grow well in pots, but 

 are of no use for the plunging system. 



Ceocus. — Half a dozen sorts are enough for most gardens. The 

 best are Barr's Superb Yellow, common white, common blue. Sir 

 Waller Scott, Queen Victoria, and Jlont Blanc. Plant four inches 

 deep in autumn, and leave them untouched three years ; then take 

 up and plant again. If you now have a lot of crocuses that have 

 become mixed, wait till they are in flower, then take them up, and 

 replant them as you wish them, and as they will remain. 



A few years ago, in superintending some improvements in an old 

 garden, it became necessary to take up a lot of crocuses and snow- 

 drops. The first were in full bloom, but the snowdrops had just 

 done blooming. Not liking to destroy them, I had them dibbled 

 in six inches deep in odd parts of the lawn. They flowered the 

 next season, but rather poorly, much better the next, ai:id have since 

 then quite covered the ground with their charming flowers, every 

 year making it truly an enamelled mead. In those parts of the 

 lawn where these flowers are, it is the rule now never to mow the 

 grass till quite the middle of May. !S. H. 



