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pensable in the good garden of hardy flowers, is not a plant for 

 the Primrose garden, as it makes no show in the mass. The grand 

 Primroses for garden effect are the large bunch-flowered kinds, white, 

 yellow, and orange-coloured, red, crimson, and rich brown ; of infinite 

 variety in form, texture, habit, and colouring, easy to raise to any 

 amount by seed, as also by division of the older plants. A Primrose 

 garden (part of which is here illustrated), that for some years has 

 been an ever-increasing source of pleasure and interest to its owners, 

 was formed a few years ago by making an opening about 70 yards 

 long, and varying from 10 yards to 15 yards wide, through a wild 

 copse of young Birch trees. The natural soil was very poor and 

 sandy, so it was prepared by a thorough trenching and a liberal 

 addition of loam and manure, which has to be renewed every year. 

 No formal walks are made, but one main track is trodden down 

 about 2 feet wide near the middle of the space, dividing into two here 

 and there, where a broader clearing makes it desirable to have two 

 paths in the width. The older divided plants are put into groups 

 of a colour together, from twenty to fifty of a sort. The groups 

 of seedlings are of necessity more various, though they are more or 

 less true to the parent colour, so that a patch of a hundred seedlings 

 from yellows, for instance will give a general effect of yellow 

 throughout the group. The whites and yellows are kept at one end 

 of the garden, and the reds at the other ; the deepest yellows next to 

 the reds. Seen from a little distance, the yellow and white part of the 

 Primrose garden looks like a river of silver and gold flowing through 

 the copse. The white stems of the Birches and the tender green of 

 their young leaves help to form a pretty picture, which is at its best 

 when the whole is illuminated by the evening sunlight." 



Some of the Plants for Reserve Garden and for Cutting Flowers. 



Carnations Pyrethrum Grasses, the more Campanula Polyanthus 



Phloxes Schizostylis graceful kinds Chrysanthemums Oxlips 



Scarlet Lobelias Chinese Pinks Zinnias Meadow Saffrons Tulips 



Pinks Scabious Sweet Sultan Roses Violets 



Double Rockets Blue Cornflower Ranunculus Crinum American Cowslips 



Iris _ Sweet Williams Anemone Crocus Gaillardia 



Pansies Stocks Lilies Dahlia Gladiolus 



Alstroemeria Wallflowers Delphiniums Paeonies Everlastings 



Tigridia Grape Hyacinths Narcissus Pentstemon Christmas Roses 



Columbines China Asters Primroses Lenten Roses 



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