16 VARIETY IN THE LITTLE GARDEN 



your colors separate, but let these little colonies run into each 

 other as flowers do in the woods. Some early tulips are here and 

 there. For a pink effect, Cottage Maid, Pink Beauty, and 

 Murillo (a double). For late tulips in pink: Clara Butt, Ingles- 

 combe Pink, Baronne de la Tonnaye. Among the early tulips 

 some lavender hyacinths will be charming — King of the Blues 

 (pale lavender). Grand Maitre (deep purple). As for daffodils, 

 which should be frequent and in informal groups of from twenty 

 to thirty. Flora Wilson is a lovely variety. So is Ariadne; and 

 Cynosure and Lucifer are handsome flowers with their orange 

 cups against the white outer petals. Emperor and Empress, the 

 yellow trumpet daffodils, can be bought anywhere. 



The little low-growing perennial things, mentioned before as 

 growing at the top of a low wall, are enchanting if grown below 

 tulips, daffodils, and other taller flowers. As for the forget-me- 

 nots (Myosotis) I should grow these from seed. Sow in June or 

 July the varieties Perfection or Royal Blue; let the plants seed 

 themselves after flowering the following spring; and if your 

 climate is fairly cool and your soil good, you should have, as I 

 do, Myosotis growing like a weed everywhere. No weed so 

 welcome as this, for below lilacs in May, back of yellow tulips, 

 everywhere we see these delicate reaches of sky-blue. It is one 

 of the most heavenly things in our spring. 



The very cheapest tulip one can buy, by the way, is one of 

 the most beautiful, and it increases constantly from year to 

 year. It is tulip Gesneriana rosea, a brilliant cherry-crimson, 

 most striking in beauty when raising its handsome heads above 

 sheets of blue forget-me-nots. 



