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Nama Rockrothii, from California, has hairy foliage and white 

 or purplish funnels of flowers in terminal heads on stems of 7 or 8 

 inches. It should be quite easy in open cool soil. 



Nananthea perpusilla, a very minutely dwarf and rather 

 worthless little microscopic-flowered Composite from Colorado. 



Narcissus. — The large daffodils are unfitted for the rock-garden, 

 less on account of their stature, indeed, than because they die so un- 

 tidily, in flopping masses of yellow decay. For its higher reaches, 

 however, if it be large enough in scale, they look superb, and their 

 decadence is not noticed (still less if enshrouded by degrees in the 

 developing leafage of such a thing as Potentilla nepalensis WUlmottiae). 

 But the smaller daffodils have their place everywhere in the fore- 

 ground, and the most delicate of them rejoice in the conditions of the 

 water-bed (and, indeed, they all like a generous supply of moisture at 

 the root while growing). The most exquisite of all, the silver-pale 

 N. Bulbocodium monophyllus, should have, of course, the daintiest 

 corner, in soil almost wholly sandy, and very damp in spring, under 

 the lee of a hot rock ; and over the whole garden may be peppered the 

 minute charm of N. minimus, a real miniature golden-trumpet daffodil 

 of 2 inches or less, that is never in the way ; and, for the rest, are there 

 not elaborate catalogues consecrated entirely to their worship, their 

 needs, their beauties, and their preposterous prices ? 



Nardosmia fragrans is no more than Tussilago fragrans of 

 former days ; and N. frigida is, accordingly, hardly less close itself to 

 the giant Coltsfoots, so valuable for their sweet and dowdy blooms in 

 . winter. 



Narthecium.— The Bog-Asphodel may be established in the 

 peaty bog and there let alone, to gratify summer with its little fluffy 



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