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when often repeated over a good - sized bed. 

 Yellow tulips and primrose wallflowers are as 

 good a mixture, and this scheme in general is 

 a pleasing change from the invariable carpet of 

 forget-me-not or red daisies, from which in most 

 gardens the wallflowers spring. Combinations of 

 bulbs, too, are a happy variation from old-established 

 ideas. A very successful one is that of the dark 

 blue hyacinth, General Havelock, with the Orange 

 Phoenix narcissus, and another as pretty has alter- 



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nate bulbs of the pale blue hyacinth, Lord Derby, 

 and the yellow jonquil. 



April 24. How glad is the gardener to get 

 the smallest hint which may help in floriculture ! 

 It would never have occurred to me to grow spring 

 bulbs with ferns, yet to-day I have been in a garden 

 where the fernery is a mass of tulips and narcissi, 

 with tender fronds of the ferns growing beside them, 

 and ready to take their place and hide their com- 

 panions as soon as these lose their beauty. When 

 the flowers are over and the spiky leaves begin to 

 get limp, they are cut down to within about four 



