Daffodils 
under 
Flowering 
Trees 
and Gloire de Versailles, which does not flower till the end of 
the summer. The plumes of the latter are larger, and of a 
pretty soft grey blue, which blends well with the purple 
Jackmanni clematis. In sheltered positions it makes a good 
bush, and looks especially well, growing, as one sees it in 
Ireland, with the shrubby fine leaved white Veronica angustifolia, 
IL—PALE DAFFODILS AND BLOSSOM 
DarropiLs only seem to reach the perfection of their beauty 
when the pale shades come into bloom, and fortunately many 
of the cream or lemon yellow varieties, such as Queen Bess, 
Stella and Stella superba, Katherine Spurrel, Minnie Hume, 
etc., are now cheap enough for extensive planting. With 
us the old common double yellow is usually out ten days 
before the pale varieties appear in masses, and looks com- 
paratively crude, as it stands alone in the long grass which has 
not lost the brown tinge of winter. 
All early kinds look well under such bushes as Forsythia, 
with its tumbling yellow sprays, or the white Prunus 
divaricatus or cerasifera, whilst later kinds appear to 
advantage under Exochorda grandiflora or Staphylea colchica, 
or in the grass under early Magnolias or Cherries. A pure 
ivory-coloured one is pretty under the pink Prunus triloba, 
and common sorts may rise from a carpet of Euonymus 
varigata, or St John’s Wort, under big trees. 
The sketch shows a sheet of Sve//a Daffodil growing 
under Amelanchier Canadensis, or Snowy Mespilus, one of 
the early spring blossoms which a garden cannot afford to be 
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