SPRING GARDEN AND ITS BULBS 47 



taken further on by the pale yellow of late 

 Star Daffodils. And in another part a troop of 

 Grandee^ the latest of all the bicolour Daffodils, 

 rose out of a mass of Forget-me-nots. Poly- 

 anthus, Primrose, Aubretia, Alyssum, Arabis, 

 dwarf Phloxes, Forget-me-nots, of which there 

 are now so many lovely varieties, Pansies and 

 Violas, and above all, Auriculas, form a per- 

 fect groundwork for bulbs. And as all are 

 fairly easy to grow, they are within the reach 

 of all garden-lovers. 



Each one of us, I suppose even the gardener 

 has his own little secret points of conscience 

 in the matter of economy. Purely arbitrary 

 and conventional though they may be, he dares 

 not disregard them. B may think nothing of 

 paying 20 for an etching, or $o for a scrap 

 of china, or 100 for a snuff-box, while he 

 shudders with honest dismay at the bare idea 

 of 73. 6d. for a new Rose. C cheerfully spends 

 large sums on his stables or his greenhouse, 

 while he will waste hours of valuable time in 

 saving every morsel of string off his parcels, to 

 avoid the hideous extravagance of buying a 



