of the Chrysanthemum, and are good for cutting 

 too. Three other kinds of Anemones are planted 

 in Autumn: the St. Bavo Anemone, the intensely 

 red Anemone julgens, and the lovely Anemone 

 fulgens multipetala. They give all a wonderful 

 display of flowers and there can easily be found 

 a small corner in every garden to plant them. 

 But they want sun. Apart from the above men- 

 tioned one can find .other named varieties, single 

 and double, in every good bulb catalogue, giving 

 flowers in white, rose , red, pale and dark blue 

 of an intensity, one could hardly wish better. 



Crocus. 



(1OO per sq. yards). 



We do not think it necessary to sing a song of 

 praise of the crocus. If there is one bulb (it is not 

 really a bulb as the tulip or hyacinth but a 

 corm), very wel known, it is the crocus. And yet 

 not everybody knows what can be done with tnis 

 so extremely decorative little flower besides 

 making beds or circular bands round rosebushes 

 with them. The decorative effect of this flower 

 comes forward, when we plant crocusses in our 

 lawn, or in the border of our shrubbery or in 

 our flower border, or here and there in our 

 rockery. those lovely big patches of golden 

 yellow or mauve or purple in our lawns in early 

 spring when everything looks bleak and forlorn, 



those bright spots under the still bare shrubs ! 

 One hour of sunshine, and all the flowers are 

 open wide open and give in exchange for 

 that pale wintery sunlight strong oranges, whites 

 and purples, (t is a joy we have been hoping for, 

 weeks and weeks before hand. 



If you plant crocusses in beds do not plant 

 them mixed. That is very rarely a success. The 

 bed looks too motley and not restful. If formal 

 planting is decided upon take two colours, one 

 for border another for centre. If a very long bed 

 is open plant in the same way as we advised 

 about hyacinths and tulips. Start with white and 

 go on with light blue, blue, dark blue, yellow, 

 mauve, and finish off with violet. 



Iris. 



(7O per sq. yards). 



We plant the bulb in autumn about 2 inches 

 deep. If we plant in beds it will be best to give 

 those beds a not too conspicuous place in the 

 garden, because when the flowering is over the 

 withering leaves on the bed are more or less an 

 eye sore. Better is to plant irisses among other 

 plants in the border so as to hide the withering 

 foliage in the upshoots of the other border plants. 



The flowers are simply matchless. Their shapes 

 and colours are most beautiful and remind one 

 very often of the orchid. That is why they have 



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