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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



Before the common and most beautiful of all — the marsh Forget-me- 

 not — comes, there are the wood Forget-me-not (M. sylvatica) and M. 

 dissitiflora and M. alpestris, all precious early flowers. Allied to the 

 ever-welcome Forget-me-not is the common Omphalodes, or creeping 

 Forget-me-not, valuable for its freedom in growth in half shady or 



Rhododendron garden, Bidston, Cheshire. 



rough places in almost any soil — one of the most precious of the 

 early flowers which take care of themselves if we take a little trouble 

 to put them in likely places. Among 



Annual flowers that bloom in spring where the soil is favour- 

 able, excellent results are often obtained by sowing Sweet Peas in 

 Autumn. Where this is done, and they escape the winter, they give 



