1 86 EVERSLEY GARDENS 



in a damp spot under the trees, and a still 

 larger group of P. Japonica gave promise of 

 grand effect later on. The grass walks were 

 outlined by hundreds of blue Grape-hyacinths 

 growing among the Daffodils along the edges, 

 or farther on by S cilia Sibirica. And thousands 

 of choice Daffodils were coming into flower in 

 every direction, blending exquisitely with their 

 wild brethren. A new bit of the sloping copse 

 has been taken into the Wild garden this 

 winter. And with such a ready-made founda- 

 tion as indigenous Daffodils, Anemones, and 

 Bluebells to start with, big plantations of Iris 

 Ktempferi and /. Germanica, choice Clematises 

 on a rootery, and sturdy Dielytras just coming 

 into bloom along the edge of a grass walk, 

 looked as if they had been growing there for 

 years instead of months. 



But returning to the well-known older por- 

 tions of the garden, even the wild Daffodils 

 were eclipsed by the earliest of the flowering 

 trees. Here a Forsythia rose golden out of a 

 golden mass of Emperor Daffodils. A sudden 

 turn showed an old white Plum tree against the 



