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House & Garden's 



As the first important 

 flowers of the early spring 

 we love the crocuses, 

 even when only a few 

 spring up in the grass or 

 along the border. But 

 how much more wonder- 

 ful are they when there 

 are hundreds upon hun- 

 dreds of them! Some- 

 times they come up sin- 

 gly or in thinly scattered 

 groups, perhaps only six, 

 perhaps a dozen cups to- 

 gether -•.cith the sturdy, 

 dark trunks of leafless 

 trees rising about them 



AMONG THE 



FIRST 

 TO BLOOM 



The Crocus, An Early 



Venturer Into the 



Garden 



MARIAN C. COFFIN 



Landscape Archiieci 



In some parts of this 

 crocus border the bulbs 

 are planted thick, line 

 upon line, with the cups 

 50 near together that 

 they are no longer seen 

 as individual flowers, but 

 as long-drawn splashes 

 of color. At these spots 

 the tree trunks act as 

 foils and the little patches 

 of brown earth that do 

 manage to show between 

 the wide-spread chalice 

 blooms serve to deepen 

 the coloring of the cro- 

 cuses themselves 



