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and the difficulty is to find room for them. But you 

 can easily arrange an annual over them, and pull it 

 up when they spear. Good choice species for the 

 rockery are Greigi, from Turkestan, with spotted 

 foliage and dazzling scarlet petals ; Clusiana, a lovely 

 thing in the bud ; Kolpakowskiana, red and yellow ; 

 pulchella, a rich carmine with deep blue eye ; and the 

 familiar florentina, a fragrant, fine yellow tulip which 

 often carries two or three flowers on the same stem. 

 Linifolia, a tiny tulip with brilliant scarlet bloom and 

 bulbs the size of a filbert, is another precious thing, 

 and exquisite on the rockery. 



The crocus, of course, can look after itself. Of 

 autumn flowering species I like best pulchellus a 

 small bloom of an infinitely tender and dove-like 

 lavender with yellow eye. Longiflorus is only less 

 attractive, and speciosus has a grand purple bloom 

 of considerable size. Sativus, the saffron crocus, 

 with its fragrant blossom and rich crimson tassels, 

 is very beautiful, but rather a shy bloomer with me, 

 and Scharojani, the rare, orange-red flower from 

 Circassia, is said to blossom in August. Perhaps 

 conscious of not being wanted at that season, my 

 solitary bulb, though healthy, has so far refused to 

 bloom. Imperati is a grand late crocus. It has a 

 pale blue and purple-striped blossom, and attains 

 to considerable size. Medius is nearly white with 

 purple veins ; and Zonatus, from Lebanon, one ought 

 also to possess if catalogues speak true. With Spring, 

 Sieberi appears, and Alatavicus, which I added last 

 year, but missed its bloom. Biflorus, the lovely 



