GA RDENING BY M YSELF. j j t 



every year for the mere chance. I had a 

 pot of ranunculus in bloom one winter, that 

 fairly brought people in from the street. 

 Such balls of colour ! such violet perfume ! — 

 the only flowers, I think, that I ever knew 

 smell just like a violet. And as for the ane- 

 mone, she is a queen ! — whether she wears 

 her robe of scarlet, or of purple, or of deep- 

 est violet blue. 



It is hardly fair to speak of jonquils after 

 these. Yet they are both delicate and dain- 

 ty, and well repay one's care. And some of 

 the oxalis tribe yield great returns ; and 

 cyclamens are exquisite and expensive ; 

 and the amar3'llis is doubly ditto, ditto ; and 

 ixias, and many more are to be grown, if 

 you have room, money, or opportunity. 



So much for house favourites. 



Out of doors, T may as well confess at 

 once that I have too many favourites to name 

 them all. You would grow tired, if I did 

 not. I must name a few, and then deal only 

 in general remarks. 



If your crocuses and blue-bells are scat- 



