EXAMPLE FROM HARDV BULBS AND TUBERS. 



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garden, sueli spots as perhaps at present contain nothing but 

 weeds, or any naturally ruugh ur unused spot ahout a garden 

 — such are the places for them. K\'en where all the lawn 

 must be mown the Snowdrop may be enjoyed in early spring, 

 for its leaves die down, (ir at all events ripen sufficiently before 

 there is anv occasion to mow the grass. 



But the prettiest results are oidy attainable where the 



The I'urk^ Cap Lily, naturalised in the grass by wooJ-«a!k. 



grass need not l)e mown till nearly the time the meadows are 

 ninwn. Then we may have gardens of Narcissi, such as men 

 never dared to dream about a dozen years ago ; such as no 

 one ever thought possiljle in a garden. In grass not mown 

 at all We may even enjoy many of the Lilies, and all the 

 lovelier and more stately Ijulbous flowers of the meadows and 

 mountain lawns of Europe, Asia, and America. 



On a stretch of good grass which need not be mown, and 

 on fairly good soil in an}" part of our country, beauty may be 



