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ion of an English authority on daflfodils in his 

 own words ? 



"As to daffodils among peonies — well, if you 

 don't get manure (new) among their roots, and 

 only top-dress with farmyard or stable manure, 

 using bonemeal underground, I think many daf- 

 fodils would do very well; but you should try 

 them from more places than one when you buy. 

 Like humans and others, a rich diet coming on 

 top of a long-drawn-out poor one upsets matters." 



Crocus-collecting, judging from what Mr. E. 

 Augustus Bowles writes of it, must have charms 

 indeed. I confess to the germ of the fever in the 

 shape of several of Mr. Bowles's delightfully read- 

 able articles safely put away in a letter-file. Each 

 time I take these out to reread them, I grow a 

 little weaker; and by next July when fresh lists 

 of crocus species lay their fatal hand upon me, I 

 expect to be a crocus-bed-ridden invalid indeed ! 



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