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they should be called). The long lists of these bulbs 

 in the nurserymen's catalogues are enough to alarm 

 any one, but you will find that for ordinary garden 

 decoration eight or ten different varieties will keep 

 you in flowers for several months. I advise the 

 following : Obvallaris or the Tenby Daffodil, bright 

 yellow, rather small but very early ; bicolor Hors- 

 fieldi, early, very large, very free flowering and 

 most beautiful ; Golden spur, bright yellow, fine 

 and early ; Incomparabilis cynosure and Incom- 

 parabilis soleil d'or, I. flore plena (butter and 

 eggs), /. orange Phoenix (eggs and bacon), Biflorus, 

 very late flowering; Poeticus (pheasant's eye 

 Narcissus), Poeticus plenus (gardenia-flowered 

 Narcissus). With these you will have flowers last- 

 ing from February till May, and as all those I 

 have mentioned are cheap, you will be able to plant 

 them in large quantities. This is far better in 

 effect than having a great variety of new and ex- 

 pensive kinds, which can only be had sparingly. 

 A bed or border full of these spring flowers is a 

 beautiful sight, or they may be planted in the 

 grass if you have a convenient place. 



The bulbs should be planted in September, five 

 or six inches deep (less deep if they are in grass), 



