78 STUDIES IN GARDENING 



than Wallflowers, for the Wallflower, though a hum- 

 ble plant, requires a certain treatment a little out 

 of the ordinary routine. The seed should be sown 

 very thinly in the open border and in poor soil, about 

 the beginning of May. The seedlings should never 

 be allowed to get crowded. When they are about 

 three inches high they should be shifted, so that they 

 may not make long tap roots and be difficult to move 

 later on. They should have their crowns pinched out 

 a little later, so that they may break into compact 

 bushy plants, and in early October they should be 

 moved into their quarters for the next spring, and 

 planted very firmly in the ground. If by this time 

 they have made long tap roots and grown leggy and 

 straggling, they will resent moving, and very likely 

 die off in the winter. 



Daffodils in the grass are now within a few weeks 

 of their prime. Some of the earlier kinds, such as the 

 Tenby daffodil and pallidus praecox are going over; 

 and Princeps is now in full bloom. Pallidus praecox, 

 the most beautiful of the earlier kinds, is rather capri- 

 cious. It usually dies out soon in a border, but will 

 often last for years in the grass on a northerly half- 

 shaded slope. Even the Tenby Daffodil thrives better 

 in the grass, though it is supposed to be a vigorous 

 variety anywhere. Princeps is one of the easiest of 

 Daffodils. Its flowers look rather commonplace when 

 picked or in the border, but they have a peculiar 

 beauty in the grass. There is no Daffodil, however, 

 to equal the Queen of Spain as a grass flower. Bulbs 



