90 FLOWERS IN BLOOM. [MAY. 



generally fond of flowers. With this, and a 

 little experience, you will soon become a tole- 

 rable gardener. 



My tulips will soon be in full bloom and 

 beauty. Besides jonquils, I have Muscari mos- 

 chatum, or musk hyacinth, the flow r er of which 

 is not pretty, but makes amends for its want of 

 beauty by its fragrance. In the peat border, I 

 have a beautiful and rare kind of Uvularia. The 

 cinnamon and China roses are beginning to 

 open. I have also some columbines, yellow 

 alysson, and Anemone pulsatilla, or Pasque 

 flower, an English plant, and very beautiful ; 

 besides several varieties of the Anemone hor- 

 tensis, or scarlet anemone ; of these last I have 

 a whole row, and their scarlet heads look like a 

 line of soldiers. I could name a few other 

 plants, either in flower or just bursting ; but I 

 only know their Latin names, and I fear to tire 

 you with a list of them. 



