Gardening for Amateurs 



A Spring display Tulips and Forget-me-nots 



are also effective when planted among tall 

 Tulips. Useful kinds of Viola are Archie 

 Grant, Blue Bedder, Blue King and True 

 Blue, blue ; Bullion, Primrose Dame and 

 Wonder, yellow ; Countess of Hopetoun, 

 Mrs. Kinnaird and White Empress, white ; 

 Duchess of Fife and Golden Fleece, yellow and 

 blue ; Countess of Kintore, James Cocker 

 and White Duchess, white and blue ; Cliveden 

 Purple, Mrs. C. Turner, and The Mearns, 

 purple ; Bessie Clarke and J. B. Riding, 

 mauve. In addition to these, the purple- 

 flowered Viola gracilis is an excellent spring 

 bedding plant, its rich coloured blossoms 

 being borne with great freedom. Used alone 

 or associated with the white-flowered Ever- 

 green Candytuft (Iberis sempervirens) it is 

 very effective. It also forms a good carpet 

 plant for some Tulips. 



The double white Arabis (albida flore pleno) 

 is an extremely useful plant, for its flowers 

 are borne with great freedom. It may be 

 either planted alone or grouped with purple 

 Aubrietia, the crimson Firefly Daisy, or with 

 dark-coloured Wallflowers, while it is effec- 



tive with almost any Tulips, especially with 

 those of red or rose or very dark colouring. 



Closely allied to this is the Purple Rock- 

 cress (Aubrietia deltoidea), another charming 

 and very useful plant. Of compact habit, it 

 blooms very freely and may be grown alone 

 or grouped with the white Arabis or the white- 

 flowered Iberis sempervirens. White, yellow 

 or maroon-coloured Tulips may be used with 

 the mauve Aubrietia. In addition to the 

 Daisy called Firefly, the crimson variety 

 already referred to, there are others which 

 deserve attention, notably double pink, 

 double white and Alice, all excellent free- 

 flowering kinds. They may be used in com- 

 bination with red, yellow or white Tulips. 



Alyssum saxatile is a dwarf plant which 

 bears a profusion of rich yellow flowers, whilst 

 its variety citrinum has lemon-coloured 

 blossoms. They group well with the double- 

 flowered Arabis, Iberis sempervirens, and 

 with brown Wallflowers. They are also 

 effective as a carpet beneath red-flowered 

 Tulips. 



The various kinds of Forget-me-nots or 



