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and patchings, and taking up, and drying, and mere 

 playing with our beautiful Spring Bulbs? How- 

 many enjoy the exquisite beauty afforded by Spring 

 flowers of this type, established naturally, and crop- 

 ping up full of beauty, without troubling us for 

 attention at any time ? None. The subject of deco- 

 rating with Spring Bulbs is merely in its infancy ; at 

 present we merely place a few of the showiest of 

 them in geometrical lines. The little we do leads to 

 such a very poor end, that numbers of people, alive 

 to the real charms of a garden too, scarcely notice 

 Spring Bulbs at all, regarding them as things which 

 require endless trouble, as interfering with the 

 " bedding-out," and in fact, as not worth the pains 

 they occasion. This is likely to be the case so long 

 as the most effective and satisfactory of all modes 

 of arranging them is quite unused by the body of 

 the gardening public ; that way is the placing of 

 them in wild and semi-wild parts of country seats 

 and gardens, and in the rougher parts of a garden, 

 no matter where it may be situated or how it' may 

 be arranged. It is a way never practised now, but 

 which I venture to say will yield more real interest 

 and exquisite beauty than any other. 



Look, for instance, at the wide and bare belts of 

 grass that wind in and around the shrubberies in 



