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season of tulips and narcissi, with their countless varieties. What a 

 variety of form in the narcissi ! What a wealth of color in the tulips ! 

 Their season is fully a month, and before it is done the early-flowering 

 herbaceous plants are showing bloom and the flowering shrubs have 

 begun a display that will end only with fall. By May scores of hardy 

 shrubs and plants are in bloom creeping phloxes, columbines, do- 

 ronicums, Oriental poppies, German and Siberian irises, and in shrubs, 

 lilacs, early spireas, Japan quinces, magnolias, and Mollis and Ghent 

 azaleas. We must not forget the hardy climbers, of which the clematis, 

 in its numerous splendid varieties, covers a season of fully six months and 

 with which alone a most charming and interesting garden could be made. 

 June brings such a wealth of bloom that we are at a loss as to what 

 to use and what to reject. Rhododendrons in many varieties and colors, 



HERBACEOUS PEONY 



