Muscari Armeniacum and Heldreichi are later and finer, but April, 

 they cost 2d. and 4d. apiece instead of is. a hundred. M. conicum Grape 

 from the Campagna is a useful sort and due to flower in Hyacinths 

 March. and 



Close to one of our groups of Daffodils, and just between p i v o n f nll o 

 two big trees, we have a colony of white and bright yellow 

 Polyanthus. They are now in full flower and carry on very 

 charmingly the light and deep yellow tones of the Daffodils. I 

 must confess though that they are not growing as well as they 

 did in a garden border under the shadow of a box edging, and 

 fear their new home was not well enough prepared for them, 

 and that the roots of the trees are robbing them of what little 

 nourishment there is. The shade they appreciate one day of 

 hot sun being apt to lay leaves and flowers prostrate on the 

 ground and will thrive under and round trees if given a good 

 deep soil and, if possible, a cool, moist situation. A north 

 aspect under a wall where little or no sun reaches them suits 

 them well, and they will be all the better if some old manure 

 be forked in at the time of planting. We have only two kinds 

 in any quantity at present : white with a yellow eye, and full 

 yellow with an orange eye. I prefer them to the many gold- 

 laced pink, brick-red and crimson ones ; many of these are 

 beautiful when looked into, or arranged in water, but from the 

 point of view of colour, for bedding or naturalising in 

 woods, the less gold lacing and the purer the colours, the 

 better they look. A good selection of yellows and rich red 

 browns with Wallflowers of the same tone give an unusual effect 

 of quiet yet deep rich colouring. 



Prettier really than the Polyanthus are the bunched 

 Primroses. Unfortunately we have very few, but a corner of 



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