22 The Wild Garden 



of the common old border kind are quite different in 

 effect from our other early flowers, and very pretty. 

 In this genus there is much difference in habit, the 

 greenish, drooping-flowered kinds, like nutans, giving 

 quite a different effect from that of the common white 

 border kind. There is no difficulty about growing these 

 in grass. 



The Snowflakes (Leucojum) do admirably, the early 



one being a more precious flower than the Snowdrop, 



useful to gather, and brightly effective very early. The 



■ later ones are also graceful things, free and handsome 



in rich grass. 



Living in a world of Wood Hyacinths, there was less 

 need to try the Scillas than the non-British flowers, 

 which give us new aspects of flower life ; but so far the 

 results have been good with the Spams h Scil la and the 

 new Scilla-like plants (Chionodoxa), which are early and 

 disappear early. 



To this sort of flower-gardening, which extends so 

 much the interest in flower life, the bulb merchants 

 might do great good by offering such bulbs and roots 

 as these at lowest possible rates by the thousand. 

 It would pay cultivators to grow such roots in quantity 

 for the public, as it now pays Lincolnshire farmers to 

 grow the Snowdrop for the trade in that popular 

 flower. Th e whole succes s of wild gardening depends 

 on arranging bold, natural groups with a free hand. 



