334 COMMON SENSE GARDENS 



My experience has been that no matter where it is 

 planted the bud will shrivel up just when it seems 

 about to burst into flower. It is most fickle and 

 it does not pay to bother with it. 



The GESNERIANA TULIP can be naturalized suc- 

 cessfully, and should be placed in clumps along the 

 edge of a bank or near shrubbery, where it is not 

 too dry. The flower is a beautiful red in colour 

 and is borne on a long, straight stem. It is very 

 decorative when cut. Like the Cottage Garden 

 Tulips, Gesneriana is rather too formal and Dutch 

 looking when used in rows in the garden. 



CROCUSES are not of much value in the garden. 

 They are very early, but that is their chief claim 

 to favour. When they first appear our eyes have 

 been flower-starved for so long that we welcome 

 them with much pleasure and talk about their ad- 

 vent at the breakfast table. Crocuses should be 

 placed in the lawn, or on the edge of the meadow, 

 and will have to be renewed about every two or 

 three years. One sometimes sees Crocuses bloom- 

 ing through a late snow, and when they are dis- 

 covered in such a plight the effect is quite startling. 



COLUMBINE is found in a natural state in poor 



