THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



which may not have seen these before. Three are 

 before me as I write: Elvira, Noble, and Chal- 

 lenger. And now, in trying to describe them, how 

 I long for my color-charts which are miles away. 

 Elvira's starry cream-white perianth measures 

 three inches across, its pale straw-yellow trumpet 

 is one inch in length and has edges more delignt- 

 fuUy frilled than any daffodil I have yet seen. 

 The perianth here is like a six-pointed star be- 

 cause of the overlapping of its segments; the effect 

 is lovely. Noble, a magnificent flower, stands 

 from the ground twelve inches, and its giant 

 spread across the perianth is as much as four 

 inches. The perianth, each segment almost apart 

 from its neighbor or with an effect of distinctness 

 because of the slight reflexing of each one, has a 

 superb appearance and forms the setting for a 

 rich chrome-yellow trumpet one inch long with 

 rather broadly frilled edges. Superb is not too 

 strong a term to apply to this flower. In my fear 

 lest the warm weather, which brought the bulbs to 

 the budding stage, might change to cold and even 

 frosty nights, I brought a bud of each inside to 

 develop in water, leaving a duplicate on each plant 

 to watch the behavior in the two atmospheres. 

 The difference is striking, those in the house never 

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