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The soft lemon colour of the hanging bells of P. sik- 

 kimensis makes it one of the prettiest of woodland 

 plants. 



Two beautiful Indian Primroses of a smaller size 

 that also like a damp place, though less shade, are 

 P. rosea and P. involucrata Monroi ; the latter seldom 

 seen in gardens, though it is one of the most charming 

 of hardy Primulas. These two gems, and our native 

 tiny P.farinosa, should be close to the path in moist, 

 mossy, peaty ground. Also near the path should be a 

 good planting of the brilliant Mimulus cupretis, well 

 known but much neglected ; in appearance it would 

 suit the neighbourhood of the Bog Asphodel, the latter 

 in a rather moister hollow with Sphagnum. 



In the same cool and rather damp copse-edge the 

 Alpine Willow-leaved Gentian {G. asclepiadea) will be 

 glad of a place, and also the North American G. 

 Andrewsii that flowers in October, and in the cool 

 leafy mould of the copse the Canadian Bloodroot 

 {Sanguinaria), Trilliums, and the fine Californian 

 Erythronium {E. giganteuui), should be in some 

 quantity ; for though they are also delightful plants 

 to have even in a moderate patch, yet their true use is 

 to be in such generous masses that they form distinct 

 features in the woodland landscape. In this way of 

 bold planting, no one who has seen them disposed in 

 long-shaped rather parallel drifts, having some relation 

 either to the trend of the ground, or the direction of 

 the woodland path, or the disposal of the masses of 

 tree or undergrowth, or some such guiding impulse, 

 will ever be content with a less careful mode of plant- 



