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in colour for a fortnight, or three weeks at most, 

 then becomes a melancholy waste till summer 

 bedding begins. The bulb beds at Hampton 

 Court, for instance, which are always grounded 

 with some dwarf flower, are infinitely more 

 effective than those down the east side of 

 Hyde Park, while a quarter of the quantity 

 of bulbs are used. What can be more ex- 

 quisite than a bed of the yellow and orange 

 Hyacinths which are curiously neglected by 

 many lovers of bulbs rising from a ground- 

 work of Scilla Sibirica or ^Myosotis dissitiflora ; 

 or one of Auriculas, kept to shades of purple, 

 and starred with Narcissus poeticus. I was 

 much taken with the deep blue of the Grape 

 Hyacinth planted lavishly among a thick double 

 line of white and yellow Polyanthus, which 

 made a most striking edging to a long shrub- 

 bery border in the Public Gardens at Bourne- 

 mouth last Spring. While in the wild part of 

 the Garden of Delight, I shall not soon forget 

 a plantation of the mysterious white Trillium 

 grandiflorum in the carpet of indigenous Blue- 

 bells that spreads under the trees ; its place 



