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ceases for me, for the clear photographs with 

 which it is thickly sprinkled show the most inane 

 and tiresome arrangement of flowers possible to 

 conceive, carpet-bedding gone mad. Piteous to 

 see measured bands of these delicious flowers, 

 mats of aubrietas studded with single tulip jewels 

 in geometric arrangements, and one horror called 

 a "raised flower-bed" in which the same out-of- 

 date planting is practised. At Belvoir Castle, to 

 make it worse, a rare chance is surely given by 

 the great variety of graded slopes apparent in the 

 pictures for much picturesque informal planting. 

 The mention of daffodils turns our attention 

 to two small but important books on this most 

 fashionable flower. England seems daffodil-mad 

 to-day; and as we are far behind the mother 

 country in "gardening finely," yet always looking 

 to her for sound advice, we shall probably soon 

 catch the fever. In fact, some of us think we 

 have symptoms now. 



The valuable book for the daffodilist is the 

 lonograph, "Daffodils," by the Reverend Joseph 

 Tacobs, of England, in that set of books, "Present 

 Day Gardening." In these pages all that is 

 known concerning daffodils up to date is con- 

 densed, set down by a true lover of the flower, 



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