Crown Golden Polyanthus grow at their feet, and in front stand 

 Imperials clumps of cream Daffodils, repeating the colour of the showy 

 and an thers in the Lily-like flowers above. This border leads to 

 Daffodils ^ orma ^ Box edged beds, full of orange and yellow Tulips and 

 lemon and golden Wallflowers. The pure yellow Crown 

 Imperials would be very beautiful also grouped with pale 

 Daffodils, which blend, indeed, with almost any colour, though 

 I prefer to keep them apart from the bright rose colour of 

 early Tulips. Preferably they should be planted with the 

 blue Anemones Blanda and Apennina^ with the mauve 

 A. pulsatilla, and with white and yellow Fumitory, or in the 

 rockery with dwarf Phloxes such as Wilsoni^ or Laphami, whose 

 mauve heads stand a foot high. The very early kinds look 

 well amongst scilla Sibirica, or near some of the dwarf early 

 Irises. The soft beauty of Iris pumila celestes would be much 

 increased by a patch of cream near its pale blue flowers. 



One cannot be too grateful for the new Daffodil hybrids, 

 which have not only varied form and tone, but have extended the 

 flowering time so much. In a friend's garden near Harrow all 

 the following cream kinds were in perfection as late as the first 

 week in May, while many other sorts were still good 



Mrs Camm ) 



Cymbeline > all three with large trumpets. 



Eennet Poe ) 



Diana with white frilled open cups. 



Undine ~) 



Minnie Hume > with short cups. 



Luciole ) 



Snow-gleam with short yellow cup. 

 The clumps of the latter were still thick with buds. In 



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