COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



clothed branches against the garden wall; beneath it are 

 mats of silver-gray Phlox subulata G. F. Wilson and groups 

 of yellow Daffodils. 



I have found the various Star Daffodils the best for 

 naturalizing in grass. Minnie Hume, Mrs. Langtry, 

 Grandee, and Queen Bess are inexpensive sorts that are 

 timed to the flowering of the orchard Cherries and with 

 them seem to express the very fulness of the spring. I 

 remember that the meadows about the beautiful old 

 colonial mansion of Homewood, near Baltimore, used to be 

 a sea of yellow Daffodils in spring — a rare treasure trove for 

 flower-loving children. These were the fat old double sort 

 with crumpled green-gold petals and the smell of moist earth. 

 The poeticus varieties bloom with the Apple blossoms and 

 may easily be naturalized in orchards where the grass 

 need not be cut until after the Narcissus foliage has died 

 naturally. 



To-day, May 8th, a pink-flowered Japanese Cherry is in 

 full flower, the ground beneath it carpeted with pale Star 

 Daffodils and the edge of the bed hidden under alternate 

 mounds of purple Aubrietia Dr. Mules and sky-blue Iris 

 pumila caerulea. A week later Malus floribunda will shed 

 its pink petals upon the pale gold trumpets of Narcissus 

 beauty. Old-fashioned Bleeding Heart consorts gaily with 

 pretty Narcissus stella superba and nodding white Checker 

 Lilies, and to-morrow the band of purple Viola cornuta 

 and Forget-me-not about the pool will be starred with the 

 fragrant double blossoms of the Gardenia-flowered Narcissus, 



A poet could not but be gay 



In such a jocund company. 



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