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petticoat Daffodil, illustrated on page 96. Planted in 

 almost pure sand, in a hot sunny position, but where 

 it will be moist in the growing season, this charming 

 daffodil is a picture, as it throws up its papery white 

 flowers, with yellow stamens, in January. The leaves, 

 as will be seen, are grass-like, and are hardly noticeable 

 when the flowers are over. It is well to give this plant, 

 a native of North Africa, a position sheltered from rough 

 winds, and to protect the flowers from heavy rain by 

 the use of the sheet of glass already referred to. 



Simultaneously with this comes the buttercup-like 

 flowers of the Winter Aconite, or Eranthis hyemalis, 

 each surrounded by its whorl of green leaves, while 

 everywhere croci are by this time showing their green 

 points, shortly to break into blossom. 



Some of the other bulbous plants which thrive here 

 are Bulbocodium vernum, Chionodoxa Lucilia and 

 sardensis, S cilia bifolia and sibirica, with their white 

 forms, Muscari, various Narcissus, Iris reticulata, 

 Galanthus Ikarice, nivalis, Elwesii, Ornithogalums, and 

 English and Spanish Iris. These latter are most 

 decorative, with their beautiful varied coloured flowers 

 poised like dainty butterflies upon the slender stalks. 



When these bulbs are not planted below some 

 dwarf carpeting plant, I invariably sow about the place 

 where they have been inserted seeds of such annuals 

 as the lonopsidium acaule, and Linaria alpina, so as to 



