MAY 



"... Green flame the hedgerows. 



Pageants of colour and fragrance 

 Pass the sweet meadows, and viewless 

 Walks the mild spirit of May, 

 Visibly blessing the world." 



Henley. 



" And earth unto her leaflet tips 

 Tingles with the spring." 



William Watson. 



Late Tulips A ft AY is above all things the month of Tulips. Many of 

 and their I V I the early-bedding kinds flower in April, but they are 

 uses still in beauty the first week of May, and then open 



the much more lovely late-flowering varieties Cottage, Darwin, 

 Bybloemens, Bizarres, Roses, etc. These have many great 

 advantages over the early ones graceful foliage and long 

 stalks holding their big cups two feet or more from the ground. 

 They can be treated as perennials and left alone for several 

 years, or they can be used as bedders, above all in formal Dutch 

 gardens, and be lifted and dried when they have done flowering. 

 In borders they should be planted deep enough to allow of 

 annuals or low-growing permanent plants being put in above 

 them, and they are often invaluable for strengthening the 

 colour one wishes to predominate in a particular spot. The 

 group of flowering shrubs Solatium crispum and Cytlsus in 

 the sketch made at Tregothnan was completed in an attractive 

 way by the clump of yellow Tulips. Wonderful colour effects 



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