Bulbs to The British Tulip sylvestris is also at home in grass ; a 



plant under large patch of the graceful yellow flowers with hanging 



Cherries heads would be very attractive with neighbouring white and 



and Crabs P ur P^ e Fritillaries, and the pale blue Triteleia unlflora. This 



Spring Star Flower should be planted the sunny side of the 



trees, and where the grass is thin, but it cannot be counted on 



to increase very much. The pretty little flower is best admired 



in the bed and not picked, as it has a very unpleasant, onion-like 



smell when its stalk is bruised. 



Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum, would be 

 pretty with its fellow star-flower, and seems quite able to take 

 care of itself in grass, but the white glistening flowers seldom 

 open till May. Ornithogalum nutans flowers generally in 

 April, and though the white of the spikes is shrouded with pale 

 green it is quite effective enough to look well in a mass alone, or 

 to be planted with a decided colour like the fine blue of Grape 

 Hyacinth. 



Our native field plant, the summer Snowflake, or Leucojum 

 astivum, though it prefers a damp meadow, will accommodate 

 itself to a dry position, and its dark leaves would make striking 

 clumps, under the trees, with either the pale blue Anemone 

 robtnsonlana or the single or double Cuckoo Flower Car damme 

 pratensls. 



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