in the open. When first I planted this Crocus walk, some years Spring, 

 ago, I put in 500 of each sort at the same time. It seemed Crocuses in 

 rather extravagant when I did it, but it has quite answered, and Grass 

 turned out a most satisfactory piece of planting. All grass where 

 bulbs are planted wants mowing twice a year, in July and 

 October. This last is most important, and facilitates spring 

 growing; and when the leaves are swept up in November, a 

 sprinkle of fresh earth and leaf mould does good supplying 

 what you take away. 



To go back to the succession under the trees facing north- 

 west, and getting little sun all the spring-time. After the Snow- 

 drops come the first early wild Daffodils or Lent- Lilies, then Dog- 

 tooth Violets, white and purple ; and though liliaceous bulbs, 

 they have stood the dryness well, being quite shaded all the 

 summer. The beautiful North American kinds, which do so 

 well in damp woods, I have not ventured on, as they want more 

 moisture than I can give them. All the plants and bulbs in this 

 spring grass border are planted in masses and clumps, in imitation 

 of Nature growing together, and yet without formality, one 

 kind spreading more or less into the next group. I have also 

 some Corydalls, or bulbous Fumitory^ with lovely fresh leaves 

 and dull purplish flowers, as well as a good white variety. All 

 these flower very early, protected by trees from wind and night 

 frosts, and they are most precious. Primroses, wild Violets, and 

 wood Hyacinths are all planted in the same place. Later, round 

 the beautiful stems of the Chestnut trees, comes the prettiest sight 

 of all the hardy Anemones. The loveliest, perhaps, are A. 

 blanda, A. apennina^ which flower a little later, and our single 

 wood Anemone and the old double kind, A. nemorosa fl. pl.^ 

 white as driven snow. In the shade, too, flourishes the pretty 



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