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every garden and the Poet's Narcissus should be 

 one of the most conspicuous; this and the Pheasant's 

 Eye are exceedingly fragrant and a very satisfactory 

 cut flower. 



There are many other spring-blooming bulbs of 

 lesser importance and less certainty of culture which 

 are useful for filling in odd corners, but none is of 

 the importance of these few already mentioned and 

 many of them fail entirely in the hands of the ama- 

 teur. In sections where the snow remains on the 

 ground all winter, snowdrops may be cultivated with 

 success and are one of the most welcome harbingers 

 of spring, but are unreliable in sections where the 

 winter is broken with sudden changes of temperature. 

 Where it is practicable to grow them they should 

 be planted two inches deep and three inches apart in 

 well-drained soil. Blooming at about the same time, 

 the Lebanon Flower, Puschkinia libamotica, is effective 

 for planting back of lower-growing bulbs or for nat- 

 uralizing among shrubbery where it may remain 

 undisturbed for three or four yeeirs. This has large 

 spikes of white flowers delicately striped with blue 

 and resembles somewhat the single hyacinth. Orni- 

 thogalums are striking plants with tall spikes of 

 white flowers with jet-black centers and an agree- 

 able perfume and should be grown in clumps of a 

 half-dozen or more in the hardy border, or inter- 

 spersed among shrubbery. 



