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profusely in late spring, when the May Tulips are in their 

 glory. Let us carpet a bed with Daisies in autumn, 

 putting the plants nine inches apart, and set the Tulips 

 between them, just to see how we shall like the effect. 

 We will try a little colour-blending. We can plant the 

 exquisite little pink Daisy Alice in association with the 

 rose Tulip Norma, or the pink Calypso, or the white 

 variety with rose exterior, Massenet. We can associate 

 the white Daisy Snowflake with the dusky Tulip La 

 Tulipe Noire. 



Or, leaving the Daisies out, we can bed the magnificent 

 yellow Tulip Bouton d'or on mauve Aubrietia and white 

 Iberis semper virens, planting Violas (tufted Pansies) be- 

 tween the Tulips for summer bloom. By both of these 

 plans we get spring beauty without winter bareness. 



And we have in reserve for autumn planting, with or 

 without bulbs, the coloured hybrid Primroses and Poly- 

 anthuses. Hundreds of these lovely flowers of the finest 

 quality can be raised by any amateur from a shilling 

 packet of seed if he will follow the simple plan of sowing 

 in a box of sandy soil in his greenhouse or frame in 

 February, and planting out in a spare bed in a cool but 

 airy situation in June ; or, failing a house, by buying 

 seedlings for planting at that time. I will suggest two 

 special ways of using the plants : (i) plant cream and 

 yellow Polyanthuses as a groundwork for white, yellow 

 or orange May-blooming Tulips, such as La Candeur, 

 Gesneriana lutea and Walter T. Ware ; (2) plant a bed 

 with cream Primroses, and set among them bulbs of 

 Narcissus albicans, an inexpensive variety with a white 

 perianth and a long trumpet which opens primrose and 

 passes to white, prettily recurved. An exquisite colour 

 harmony is thus produced in March, and after the 

 Daffodils are over the Primroses continue to improve 



