My Garden in Spring 



all that a good little plant should be, and its colour is not 

 ashamed to sit close by Chionodoxa sardensis. Its leaves 

 are unspotted and do not become coarse, and it will not 

 spread too far, for all who see it and have it not are ready 

 to carry off a portion. The best white is the albino of 

 saccharata, but it, like ojficinalis alba, is slow of increase : 

 both are pretty, -with really white flowers that go well 

 with the spotted leaves. The only other white I know is 

 a form of P. arvernensis, but though there are many flowers 

 to a head they are small and crowded, and I do not care 

 so greatly for it or its typical dark blue form as I do for 

 the larger flowered species. 



I have not yet lit upon a really satisfactory Cambridge 

 blue form. One that I first saw at Wisley looks as though 

 it should be a pale edition of Mawson's, but has never 

 grown or flowered freely here. Half way up a mountain 

 side in Tyrol I found a pale form lovely to behold in the 

 shade of its rocks : it disappointed me this Spring, appearing 

 washy, but did not flower very heartily, and may be all I 

 fancied it when it settles down. Of purple-flowered sorts 

 thereare many. P.grandifloralhzve fromGlasnevin,ashowy 

 thing when fully out, but rather on the coarse side, and not 

 very long in full beauty. A strong-growing, long-leaved 

 one from Spain, variable in depth of colour, is good in its 

 best forms, and very hardy and early, but takes up a great 

 deal of room in summer with its immense, unspotted and 

 therefore rather dull leaves. I have a set of puzzling 

 intermediates, many of them seedlings I expect, from 

 Captain Pinwill's wonderful garden, and still others from 

 Bitton, the like of which I have been quite unable to trace 

 in either of the good monographs by Du Mortier and 

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