CHAPTER VII 



MINIATURE DAFFODILS FOR THE ROCK 

 GARDEN 



Little gems that would be lost in the border Mountain 

 species to grow only in rock pockets and special soils. 



THERE are a number of dainty little-flow- 

 ered members of the daffodil family, of per- 

 fect form, that if planted in the garden and 

 border would be practically lost to sight, yet 

 they are gems when grouped, a dozen or more 

 of a kind, two to four inches apart, in the soil 

 pockets of a rockery. In fact, some of these 

 "tiny tims" were found wild in the fastnesses 

 of mountains, growing in the crevices of 

 rocks in little pockets of gritty soil and they 

 do not seem able to live in cultivation unless 

 in a properly built rockery or rock garden 

 with well-drained soil pockets leading clear 

 to the surface of the ground filled in with 

 gritty, peaty, soil and positively no manure. 

 They thrive to perfection under suitable con- 

 ditions and increase for several years. If a 

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