Wild West Country pastures, rich with the small wild Daffodil, and the 

 Narcissus Pheasant-eye Narcissus of the Swiss Alps, suggest an ideal to 

 Effects at tain to. Few things are more wonderful than the Narcissus 

 fields above the Lake of Geneva, gleaming from miles away 

 like a fall of snow on the slopes of the mountains : to hope for 

 similar acres of scented bloom would be useless in most gardens, 

 but we can adapt the idea to our own country. Our woods, 

 fields, the banks of streams and the edges of lakes can be thickly 

 planted with them, enhancing the beauty on every side. If we 

 have not the opportunity of planting on this large scale, we can 

 fill the dull spaces in front of our shrubberies, and the bare 

 ground between young shrubs, or any stretches of grass running 

 perhaps under the shade of trees which can be left unmown till 

 the leaves are dead. For picking it is a good plan to plant 

 them in clumps between Gooseberry and Currant bushes. 



Early in April the rough grass lying between the lawn and 

 wood is dancing with Daffodils. The first out are Obvallaris 

 and the old double yellow; Primroses cluster at their feet, 

 the lemon and deep yellow making a pleasant contrast round an 

 old Yew-tree. Then a little later, where the branches of a big 

 tree sweep the ground, the Stellas raise their pointed buds and 

 open lemon-coloured petals, revealing the yellow cups ; Obval- 

 laris, only half the height of Stella, displays its golden-yellow 

 flowers in the foreground, Emperor raises its strong wide trumpets 

 behind, and the early Forget-me-not [dissitiflora] encircles them 

 with a sky-blue ring. For this particular group we took the 

 coarse grass right away, replacing it with Forget-me-not and 

 Welsh Poppy. The latter enjoys the shade as much as the 

 Daffodils, but as it resents being transplanted it is best to sow it 

 where wanted and it will soon multiply itself. Later, when the 



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