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Star of Bethlehem in CJrass. 



CHAPTER III. 



EXAMPLE FROM HARDY BULBS AND TUBEES IN GRASS. 



We will now turn from the Forget-me-not order to a very 

 different type of vegetation — liardy l)ulbs and other plants 

 dying down after flowering early in the year, like the Winter 

 Aconite and the Blood-root (Sanguinaria). How many of us 

 really enjoy the beauty which a judicious use of a profusion 

 of hardy Spring -flowering Bulbs affords? How many get 

 beyond the miserable conventionalities of the flower-garden, 

 A\ith its edgings and patchings, and taking up, and drying, 

 and mere playing "with our beautiful Spring Bull)S ? How 

 many enjoy the exquisite beauty afforded by flow^ers of this 

 class, established naturally, without troubling us for attention 

 at any time ? The subject of decoratiug w4th Spring-flowering 

 Bulbs is merely in its infancy ; at present w^e merely place a 

 few of the showiest of them in geometrical lines. The little 

 w^e do leads to such a very poor result, that numbers of people, 



