and Gloire de Versailles, which does not flower till the end of 

 the summer. The plumes of the latter are larger, and of a 

 pretty soft grey blue, which blends well with the purple 

 Jackmanni clematis. In sheltered positions it makes a good 

 bush, and looks especially well, growing, as one sees it in 

 Ireland, with the shrubby fine leaved white Veronica angustifolia. 



II. PALE DAFFODILS AND BLOSSOM 



Daffodils DAFFODILS only seem to reach the perfection of their beauty 

 under when the pale shades come into bloom, and fortunately many 

 Flowering f tne cream or lemon yellow varieties, such as ^ueen Bess, 

 Trees Stella and Stella superba, Catherine Spurrel, Minnie Hume, 

 etc., are now cheap enough for extensive planting. With 

 us the old common double yellow is usually out ten days 

 before the pale varieties appear in masses, and looks com- 

 paratively crude, as it stands alone in the long grass which has 

 not lost the brown tinge of winter. 



All early kinds look well under such bushes as Forsythia, 

 with its tumbling yellow sprays, or the white Prunus 

 divaricatus or cerasifera, whilst later kinds appear to 

 advantage under Exocborda grandiflora or Staphylea colcbica, 

 or in the grass under early Magnolias or Cherries. A pure 

 ivory-coloured one is pretty under the pink Prunus triloba, 

 and common sorts may rise from a carpet of Euonymus 

 varigata, or St John's Wort, under big trees. 



The sketch shows a sheet of Stella Daffodil growing 

 under Amelanchier Canadensis, or Snowy Mespilus, one of 

 the early spring blossoms which a garden cannot afford to be 



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