THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



grown. The man to whom this list was given, a 

 distinguished judge of flowers, comments on the 

 evident partiaUty of Mr. Krelage for the rich 

 deep-purples, as shown by these choices of his 

 own. 



Last spring Miss Jekyll wrote of her pleasure 

 in some beautiful varieties of tulips, Darwins and 

 Cottage both, sent her as cut blooms by a well- 

 known grower. And I was so charmed with her 

 description of these, especially with what she said 

 of the purple and bronze tones of some of them, 

 that I cleared out a lot of shrubbery to make room, 

 and planted last fall the following groups: Ew- 

 bank and Morales together, Faust, Grand Mo- 

 narque, Purple Perfection, and D. T. Fish; Bronze 

 King, Bronze Queen, Golden Bronze, Dom Pedro, 

 Louis XIV; Salmon Prince, Orange King, Pan- 

 orama, Orange Globe, and La Merveille. 



I am not a collector; but how readily, save for 

 one reason, could I become one, in ten different 

 directions in the world of flowers ! Tulips should 

 be one of my choices; the narcissus another; no one 

 could pass by the iris. The collecting of tulips is, 

 I fancy, simple beside, say, that of daffodils. 

 The varieties of the daffodil are so many, the 

 classes not as yet quite clearly defined; while the 



