'^ CHOICE GARDEN FLOWERS 39 



It cannot be denied that the crocus, the nar- 

 cissus, the tulip, the hyacinth, and most other 

 flowers grown from bulbs bloom only a short 

 time. Many hesitate, on that account, to give 

 them whole beds to themselves. But this is not 

 necessary. The leaves of these plants die and 

 disappear soon after blooming, which leaves 

 the field clear for other flowers. While the 

 tulips, etc., are still in bloom you sow in among 

 them the seeds of annuals like portulaccas, 

 petunias, poppies, verbenas, dianthuses, cos- 

 moses, which in turn pass away when the 

 autumn frosts come, thus leaving the ground 

 clear for the bulbs to push up again the following 

 spring. 



Hyacinths are exquisitely scented, which is an 

 additional reason for growing them; so are daffo- 

 dils, jonquils, and other varieties of narcissus, 

 like the poeticus and polyanthus or nosegay 

 narcissus. Sweet-scented are the freesias and 

 many of the lilies — above all the hemerocallis, or 

 yellow lily, a bed of which simply must be 

 included in every epicure's garden. Some of the 

 tulips, notably, among the cottage tulips, Mrs. 

 Moon, Columbus, and the Gesneriana (Lutea, 

 Lutea pallida, and Major; I should like to 

 know sometliing about this Gesner), and among 

 the Darwins the Pride of Haarlem, are distinctly 

 sweet scented. Others have only a sort of faint 

 generic tulip odor. 



For the eye the most beautiful tulips are the 



