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abound in so many English country places. With the 

 great group of forms of the common English, Irish, and 

 Scotch Daffodils I have had good results ; they thrive 

 better and the flowers are handsomer than in the wild 

 plant — not uncommon in Sussex. The little Tenby 

 Daffodil is very sturdy and pretty, and never fails us. 

 The only one that has failed is the Bayonne Daffodil. 

 A very delightful feature of the Narcissus meadow 

 gardening is the way great groups follow each other in 

 the fields. When the Star Narcissi begin to fade a little 

 in their beauty the Poets follow, and as I write this 

 paper we have the most beautiful picture I have ever 

 seen in cultivation. Five years ago I cleared a little 

 valley of various fences, and so opened a pretty view. 

 Through the meadow runs a streamlet. We grouped 

 the Poet's Narcissus near it, and through a grove of 

 Oaks on a rising side of the field. We have had 

 some beauty every year since ; but this year, the plants 

 having become established, or very happy for some 

 other reason, the whole thing was a picture such as one 

 might see in an Alpine valley ! The flowers were large 

 and beautiful when seen near at hand, and the effect in 

 the distance delightful. This may, perhaps, serve to 

 show that this kind of work will bring gardening into 

 a line with art, and that the artist need not be for ever 

 divorced from the garden, by geometrical patterns 

 which cannot possibly interest anybody accustomed to 

 drawing beautiful forms and scenes. I need say no 

 more to show the good quahties of this group of 



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