(Muscari), Narcissus triandrus, Narcissus Bul- 

 bocodium, Striped squills, Squills, Spring star 

 flowers, Tulipa Greigi, Tulipa Kaufmanniana, 

 Tulipa liniflora and other kinds. One plants of 

 course small patches because the colour patch 

 must not be too blatant: it should only be a gay 

 note without disturbing the quietness of the 

 rockery. 



The above mentioned plants may remain in the 

 same place for years undisturbed. Give in the 

 autumn a little weak liquid manure mind : a 

 little and our wee friends will do their duty in 

 early Spring. 



Bulbs in grass. 



A good well-kept lawn is one of the parts of 

 the gorden to be proud of. Especially in summer 

 when the lawn is surrounded by beds or Doraers 

 full of colour. The beautiful deep green of the 

 grass shows better because of the contrast. In 

 the very first days of spring and in the last days 

 of winter a lawn with empty flower beds and 

 bare shrubs around it does not look half so 

 cheerful for the simple reason that there is no 

 contrast and the grass lacks that deep emerald 

 green of summer. Yet we can make of that same 

 uninteresting lawn again a spot of beauty by 

 planting in autumn bulbs in it. We spoke alreauy 

 about planting crocusses not formal but in the 



way nature scatters its flowers over the meadows 

 We first scatter the crocusses about over the 

 lawn here perhaps 8 or 10 there 1 or 2 in a 

 rather haphazard way. We bore, with a very 

 blunt dibbler, holes and plant in each hole a 

 crocus filling up the hole with soil. Give towards 

 the end of autumn on a sunny day the lawn a 

 good mowing and roll it. In spring all the cro- 

 cusses will come up, and, because the grass has 

 not been growing worth mentioning, the leaves 

 of the crocus very soon show in the short grass. 

 About the time that the flowers are open the 

 grass gets its first push, a lovely bright green. 

 The contrast between the bright crocussus and 

 the young grass is simply lovely. What we do 

 with crocusses, we can do with other small 

 bulbous plants as well. For sunny places we take 

 Bulbocodium, Crocus, Fritillaria meleagris, 

 Snowdrops, Leucojum and Narcissi (although 

 for the last few, we have to mow the grass 

 round it in the first month, as the leaves are 

 not so quickly gone). For shadowy places we 

 should use Chionodoxa, Corydalis, Winter Aco- 

 nites, Grape Hyacinths, Striped Squill and Squill. 



Bulbs for wild gardening. 



The soil under standard roses, shrubs and 

 fruittrees is usually a place were the gardener 

 weeds, or rakes, that is all. Most people put up 



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