168 THE WILD GARDEN. 
as there would be on a border—no necessity for replacing the plants 
with others ; the tree puts forth its leaves, covering the ground till 
Autumn, and in early spring we again see our little friend in all the 
vigour of his glossy leaves and golden buttons. In this way this 
pretty spring flower may be seen to much greater advantage, in a 
much more pleasing position than in the ordinary way of putting it in 
patches and rings in beds or borders, and with a tithe of the trouble. 
There are many other subjects of which the same is true. We have 
only to imagine this done in a variety of cases to see to what a beauti- 
ful and novel result it would lead. Given the bright blue Apennine Ane- 
mone under one tree, the spring Snowflake under another, the delicate 
blue and pencilled Crocuses, and so on, we should have a spring garden 
of the most beautiful kind. The same plan could be carried out under 
the branches of a grove as well as of specimen trees, Very attractive 
mixed plantations might be made by dotting tall subjects like the 
large Jonquil (Narcissus odorus) among dwarf spreading plants like 
the Anemone, and also by mixing dwarf plants of various colours: 
diversely coloured varieties of the same species of Anemone, for 
example, 
Omitting the various pretty British plants that would thrive in the 
positions indicated—these are not likely to be unknown to the reader 
interested in such matters—and confining the selection to dwarf, hardy, 
exotic flowers alone, the following are selected as among the most 
suitable for such arrangements as that just described, with some little 
attention as to the season of flowering and the kind of soil required by 
some rather uncommon species. A late-flowering kind, for example, 
should be planted under late-leafing trees, or towards the points of 
their branches, so that they might not be obscured by the leaves of 
the tree before perfecting their flowers. 
Anemone angulosa. Crocus Imperati. 
Grape Hyacinths Muscari, 
+ apennina. »  biflorus. any of thenumerouskinds. 
9 blanda. »  reticulatus. Narcissus, in var. 
” Coronaria. » versicolor, and Puschkinia scilloides. 
1G fulgens. many others, Sanguinaria canadensis. 
“5 Hepatica. Cyclamen hederefolium. j Scilla bifolia. 
re stellata. Eranthis hyemalis. »  Sibirica, 
a sylvestris. Erythronium Dens-canis. 1  campanulata, 
trifolia. Ficaria grandiflora. Sisyrinchium grandiflo- 
a? 
Arum italicum. 
Bulbocodium vernum, 
Corydalis solida. 
vs tuberosa. 
Snowdrop, all the kinds. 
Snowflake, all the kinds, 
Tris reticulata, 
Grape Hyacinths. 
rum. 
Trillium grandifloruam 
(peat or leaf soil), 
Tulipa, in var. 
