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as that of hardy flowers generally ; and many parts of the grounds 

 may be made alive with spring flowers, without in the least interfering 

 with the flower garden itself. The blue stars of the Apennine 

 Anemone will be seen to greater advantage when in half-shady places, 

 under Jtrees, or in the meadow grass, than in any flower garden, and 

 this is but one of many of sweet spring flowers that will succeed in 

 like ways. 



Group of Mullein, near Scotch Firs, in Surrey Heath. 



Narcissi in the Wild Garden. Perhaps an example or two of 

 what has already been done with Daffodils and Snowdrops may serve 

 to show the way, and explain the gains of the wild garden, and there 

 is no more charming flower to begin with than the Narcissus, which, 

 while fair in form as any Orchid or Lily of the tropics, is as much at 

 home in our climate as the Kingcups in the marsh and the Primroses 

 in the wood. And when the wild Narcissus comes with these, in the 

 woods and orchards of Northern France and Southern England it 



