16 A Little Maryland Garden 
daffodil and crocus,’’ and read of the ‘‘host 
of golden daffodils.” Their praises are sung 
by all our old English favourites. Bailey 
tells us that the distinction is only made in 
this country, and that in England the term 
narcissus is only applied to the poeticus. 
It was from such small beginnings that my 
garden took shape and the time soon came 
when I was able to divide and multiply, 
to stock new borders, and even send plants 
out into the marsh. Among the plants that 
increased rapidly were the orange lilies 
and certain bluebells that were given me. 
The giver had forgotten just what they were, 
but they answered to the description given 
in catalogues of campanula persicifolia. 
They throw up long spikes of flowers of a 
dainty lavender-blue, and spread so fast 
that they remind me of the remark of a 
California acquaintance about her eucalyptus 
tree, that ‘‘it was the most profligate tree 
she ever saw.”’ They bloom for a long time 
if the old flowers are cut off, and make a good 
mass of cool colour. From these two plants 
