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A clump might be established here and there near the 

 front of the border, the bulbs being set four inches 

 apart and an inch deep ; and if they take to the 

 quarters as they will if the soil is moist and cool 

 they will propagate themselves, and bloom brightly year 

 after year in April. The flowers have an odour of 

 musk. 



Hyacinthus Candicans. A plant of great beauty which 

 is allied to the Hyacinths is Hyacinthus (sometimes 

 called Galtonid) candicans. It has large expanded white 

 flowers on a long, arching stem, and they appear in 

 August. This splendid plant costs no more than about 

 one shilling per dozen bulbs, and a clump of it in the 

 border, preferably near some brilliant plant of corre- 

 sponding habit, such as Gladiolus Brenchleyensis (see 

 Chapter XX.), is very striking. It may be planted three 

 inches deep in fertile friable soil in autumn. 



The following are beautiful Hyacinths : 



