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especially if they are growing in rich moist soil ; and 

 with the mass of roots produced the soil is impoverished 

 rapidly. Lifting them, digging and manuring the soil, 

 and replanting are beneficial. 



Under the conditions, and with the treatment advised, 

 the use of Daffodils in herbaceous borders is all for good. 



The smaller Daffodils, such as Johnstoni Queen of 

 Spain , Cyclamineus, Minimus, Nanus, Bulbocodium (Hoop 

 Petticoat), and Triandrus (Angel's Tears), are suitable 

 for the rock garden. 



Cheap Gardening. People who have fairly large 

 gardens, and little spare money to spend on plants and 

 skilled men, are often at a loss to know what to do for 

 the best. Grocers', bakers', and butchers' bills, income 

 tax, rates all these have to be paid periodically, and 

 when they have all been cleared off, together with odd 

 accounts for clothes, boots, coals, and laundry, there 

 is not a great deal left with which to carry on an acre 

 or two of ground as an up-to-date garden. One way 

 of reducing the expenditure on a garden is to sow a 

 good deal of it down with grass and establish colonies 

 of bulbs in it. They are in bloom in spring before the 

 grass has begun to grow, and so the flowers show up 

 well, even quite small things like Snowdrops and 

 Crocuses making a bold display. It is of the essence 

 of the scheme that the grass should not be regularly 

 mown with a machine and rolled from the time that 

 it begins to grow in April, because that would involve 

 weekly expenditure in labour. The amateur gardener 

 learns from experience that, if grass is kept trim, like 

 a lawn, by mowing, rolling, and edge clipping, it gives 

 as much work as an equal area of cultivated garden. 

 The grass must be left to grow. Not only would the 

 regular cutting cause expense in labour, but it would 



