THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



and Firebrand were the brightest and most glow- 

 ing of the fifty. Elvira, of the Poetaz group, is a 

 telling flower with its rich cream-white bunches 

 of bloom and pale cup of straw-color. This daf- 

 fodil, grown in masses in woodlands, should pro- 

 duce a very marvellous spring picture. I have 

 fancied, too, that its fine flowers above the low 

 Iris pumila, var. cyanea, might be a sight worth 

 seeing. 



These fragmentary notes are all that can be 

 given here. It is hard to choose from so many 

 perfect flowers a few which seem more remark- 

 able than the rest. My practice was, as these 

 daffodils came toward flowering, to cut one from 

 each bulb while hardly out of the bud, label it 

 with a bit of paper high up on the stem, and 

 keep it before me in water for observation and 

 comparison. They were unmitigated "joys" — 

 as daffodils always are. What a marvel to have 

 a few garden things such as tulips, daffodils, and 

 phlox, subject to no insect pests, hving through 

 the severe winters of our cUmate, and in such va- 

 riety as to amaze those who like myself are only 

 beginning to know what has been done by hy- 

 bridizers! 



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