Bulbs to The British Tulip sy/vestris is also at home in grass; a 
plant under large patch of the graceful yellow flowers with hanging 
Cherries heads would be very attractive with neighbouring white and 
and Crabs Purple Fritillaries, and the pale blue Triteleia uniflora. This 
Spring Star Flower should be planted the sunny side of the 
trees, and where the grass is thin, but it cannot be counted on 
to increase very much. The pretty little flower is best admired 
in the bed and not picked, as it has a very unpleasant, onion-like 
smell when its stalk is bruised. 
Star of Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum, would be 
pretty with its fellow star-flower, and seems quite able to take 
care of itself in grass, but the white glistening flowers seldom 
open till May. Ornithogalum nutans flowers generally in 
April, and though the white of the spikes is shrouded with pale 
green it is quite effective enough to look well in a mass alone, or 
to be planted with a decided colour like the fine blue of Grape 
Hyacinth. 
Our native field plant, the summer Snowflake, or Leucojum 
estivum, though it prefers a damp meadow, will accommodate 
itself to a dry position, and its dark leaves would make striking 
clumps, under the trees, with either the pale blue Anemone 
robinsoniana or the single or double Cuckoo Flower—Cardamine 
pratensis. 
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