EXAMPLE FROM HARDY BULBS AND TUBERS. 19 
garden, such spots as perhaps at present contain nothing but 
weeds, or any naturally rough or unused spot about a garden 
—such are the places for them. Even where all the lawn 
must be mown the Snowdrop may be enjoyed in early spring, 
for its leaves die down, or at all events ripen sufficiently before 
there is any occasion to mow the grass. 
But the prettiest results are only attainable where the 
The ‘T'urk’s Cap Lily, naturalised in the grass by wood-walk. 
grass need not be mown till nearly the time the meadows are 
mown, Then we may have gardens of Narcissi, such as men 
never dared to dream about a dozen years ago; such as no 
one ever thought possible in a garden. In grass not mown 
at all we may even enjoy many of the Lilies, and all the 
lovelier and more stately bulbous flowers of the meadows and 
mountain lawns of Europe, Asia, and America. 
On a stretch of good grass which need not be mown, and 
ou fairly good soil in any part of our country, beauty may be 
