with its pendant yellow head ; which really will grow in grass, May. 



and T. Clusiana, white with a bar of pink on the outer side of Bluebells 



each petal and a purple centre, small but very lovely. In good anc [ 



rich loam, Tulips are very quickly increased from their off-sets. Anemone 



They should be taken up when the foliage dies down, dried 



and stored in a cool place till the Autumn, when the young 



bulbs can be planted in a nursery bed for one season. 



Bluebells, though essentially one of nature's most lovely 

 effects, must not be forgotten in the wild garden, and if they 

 do not grow naturally can easily be introduced. The sketch 

 was done from a Hertfordshire garden. Close round the house 

 were several acres of wood, blue with the wild Hyacinths, and 

 to these have been added thousands of Pheasant-eye Narcissus. 

 The two rising from the red-brown bracken and dead leaves 

 form a picture which once seen can never be forgotten more 

 lovely even than Bluebells and low-spreading boughs of Beech 

 just burst into tender green, or, as I have seen them in Cornwall, 

 surrounding groups of orange and flame-coloured Azaleas. When 

 Bluebells and Narcissus are over, the Bracken springs up and covers 

 the dead flowers. 



Anemone Coronaria and its varieties the Caen single and 

 double, and the St Brigid very double are still gay with us, 

 although they have flowered most of the Spring. They are 

 useful for borders and edgings, and we have found them 

 very successful round some of the Rose beds, as they enjoy the 

 rich soil when well drained, but they have also done exceedingly 

 well along the Tulip border on the edge of the field where the 

 soil is light and the chalk close below. We leave some in 

 altogether, and in this way secure a good number of flowers in 

 the Autumn, but a safer plan is to lift them after they have 



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