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My garden promises to be gay very shortly : 

 the hyacinths are beginning to burst ; the vio- 

 lets, double primroses, (of which I have the 

 common yellow, the purple, the white, and the 

 crimson,) wallflowers, daffodils, and crown-im- 

 perials, are in flower ; some other more tender 

 plants, I expect, will blossom early next month. 

 Among these are the common Pulmonaria, or 

 lungwort, with its pretty variously coloured 

 bells, some pink, some purple, and others dark 

 blue ; the Canada columbine, (rather a scarce 

 plant,) Fritillaria of different kinds, Orobus 

 vernus, (a small pink pea, to my taste, the 

 prettiest early herbaceous flower we have,) and 

 the beautiful Persian iris, which appears to 

 some people to possess a perfume as sweet 

 and powerful as the violet, while to others it is 

 perfectly scentless. My Sanguinaria Cana- 



densis will flower in the turf before the month 

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