Good Group 5. Long Trumpets 



Varieties of Grandee, like Horsficldiivetj fine. 



Narcissus 



Short Crowns 



Beatrice Heseltine, rather more expensive, with red-edged 

 cup. 



Prtecox grandiflorus. 



Ornatus, small but very sweet, pale eye. 



Narcissus biflorus, two flowers on a stem with lemon 

 yellow eye. 



Poetarum^ with a very red eye. 



Poeticus, the garden Pheasant-eye, tall and strong. 



Poetic us plenus^ like a gardenia. 



The Pheasant-eye Narcissi in this group all flower one 

 after the other in the kindest way. 



No white-trumpeted varieties have been included because, 

 though quite lovely, they are delicate and expensive for mass- 

 ing. The small Cernuus does pretty well with us, and looks 

 lovely growing from Anemone Blanda, but we have not trusted 

 it in the grass, and for pale yellow effects it is best to use the 

 Leedsi and Incomparabilis varieties which are among the 

 hardiest. 



Grape Hyacinths belong to this month. The common 

 one Muscari botryoides looks lovely planted thickly in front of 

 Horsfieldii. They seem just the right tone and strength of blue 

 to go well together, or a rich carpet of two distinct blues can 

 be made by Muscari rising from a bed of Forget-me-not 

 dissitiflora. There are white and pale blue varieties as well 

 as the deep blue one, all hardy and thriving in almost any soil. 



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