SPRING GARDENS. 



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Before the common and most beautiful of all the marsh Forget-me- 

 not comes, there are the wood Forget-me-not (M. sylvatica) and M. 

 dissitiflora and M. alpestris, all precious early flowers. Allied to the 

 ever- welcome Forget-me-not is the common Omphalodes, or creeping 

 Forget-me-not, valuable for its freedom in growth in half shady or 



Rhododendron garden, Bidston, Cheshire. 



rough places in almost any soil one of the most precious of the 

 early flowers which take care of themselves if we take a little trouble 

 to put them in likely places. Among 



ANNUAL FLOWERS that bloom in spring where the soil is favour- 

 able, excellent results are often obtained by sowing Sweet Peas in 

 Autumn. Where this is done, and they escape the winter, they give 



