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is gaudy and vulgar. And in the city another 

 objection to this method of planting is that the 

 beds, being on display, psually attract the small 

 boy or other marauder who, when he has helped 

 himself to such bloo«i as he may desire, has ab- 

 solutely ruined the appearance of the design 

 and destroyed the only virtue possessed by the 

 geometric hoxror, its symmetry. 



Bulbs should not be planted with less pur- 

 pose than other plants. Use them in corners, 

 in borders, in shrubberies and between her- 

 baceous plants wherever space permits. As an 

 example of one use to which bulbs may legiti- 

 mately be put in this connection, there is, along 

 the south side of one city house, a border be- 

 tween the foundation and the walk three feet 

 wide in which are planted plantain lilies, {Fun- 

 Jiia subcordata, var. grandifiora), which, as they 

 develop their foliage, conceal the foundation 

 wall, and the well-known poet's narcissus {N. 

 poeticus), and A'', poeticus ornatus. The latter 

 blooms earlier than the poet's narcissus and 

 is set out in front of its companions. In this 

 border, some forty feet long, these daffodils are 

 planted three or four inches apart and in four 

 rows. They are through blooming before the 

 funkia has developed its foliage, and while 



