Crocus well with some of the golden yellow Daffodils, and though they 

 Pictures begin to flower so much sooner they generally last long enough 

 to overlap some of the early kinds like obvallaris or princeps^ and 

 are relieved by the soft green Daffodil leaves, at that time only 

 three or four inches high. The mauve Crocus Margot looks 

 well with the early cream Cernuus, and this rather delicate 

 Daffodil often prospers better in grass than in the garden proper. 

 ^Anemone blanda will also grow in fine grass, and could have no 

 more charming neighbour than a large clump of white Crocus 

 which will serve to intensify its blueness. 



There are so many places where Crocuses grow and nothing 

 else, that it seems a pity to continue the plan of planting them in 

 a formal line down the edge of a path where their green is very 

 untidy, and much in the way after the flower is over ; but patches 

 of them there must be in the borders, grouped with other early 

 low flowers, as their range of colour gives one the opportunity 

 of planning many little pictures : white, for instance, with Chiono- 

 doxa or Iris reticulata, or with the early Grape Hyacinth. In a 

 long narrow border close under four big Elms which, owing to 

 the roots of the trees, will grow little but bulbs, a ribbon of 

 Crocus, daintily shaded from white to purple, twines every 

 Spring through tufts of Daffodil green. In the autumn a 

 very similar effect may be enjoyed by planting the blue-mauve 

 Grocus-speciosus. 



Spring Crocuses are as hardy as possible, and demand 

 nothing except to be planted three inches below the surface in 

 October or November, and the reward is great as each tiny bulb 

 produces three or four flowers five months later. The autumn 

 varieties should be planted in July or August. 



