THE JOYOUS ART OF GARDENING 



you do not exhaust the bulb.) If you plant also the poeticus 

 omatus, which blooms earlier, you will have flowers all of 

 May. Poets' narcissus is also good as an edging to a bed, 

 and after it is done flowering annuals may be sown. The 

 lovely little Scilla Siberica and Chionodoxa, if planted in httle 

 colonies, will delight you in March with flowers of an exquisite, 

 almost gentian blue. One Princeton professor has a bit of 

 ground against his house abloom from May until mid-June. 

 Against the house are trained Jasminum nudiflorum and Daw- 

 son roses. In front are planted poets' narcissus and daffodils. 

 In late March the Jasminum blooms, then the daffodils, next 

 the narcissi, next the roses, and then the professor goes 

 away. 



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