Star of Bethlehem in Grass. 
CHAPTER IIL. 
EXAMPLE FROM HARDY BULBS AND TUBERS IN GRASS. 
WE will now turn from the Forget-me-not order to a very 
different type of vegetation—hardy bulbs and other plants 
dying down after flowering early in the year, like the Winter 
Aconite and the Blood-root (Sanguinaria). How many of us 
really enjoy the beauty which a judicious use of a profusion 
of hardy Spring-flowering Bulbs affords? How many get 
beyond the miserable conventionalities of the flower-garden, 
with its edgings and patchings, and taking up, and drying, 
and mere playing with our beautiful Spring Bulbs? How 
many enjoy the exquisite beauty afforded by flowers of this 
class, established naturally, without troubling us for attention 
atany time? The subject of decorating with Spring-flowering 
Bulbs is merely in its infancy; at present we merely place a 
few of the showiest of them in geometrical lines. The little 
we do leads to such a very poor result, that numbers of people, 
