A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



Grand Maltre, in streams of rich and lusty violet 

 bloom, with daffodils of various names, chiefly 

 Katherine Spurrell, blooming thickly all about. 

 There is here a very simple but very nice com- 

 bination of flowers, one which the smallest of 

 gardens might afford and which the garden's 

 owner would be certain to enjoy. 



It is some of the older, cheaper sorts of daffo- 

 dils, however, that if I could I should buy by 

 the thousand to set hyacinths streaming through 

 them in color combinations to charm the most 

 indifferent eye. It is Katherine Spurrell, Mme. 

 de Graff, Ariadne, Flora Wilson — and with these 

 the six hyacinths with which we have tried this 

 spring a very successful experiment, a group of 

 colors from deepest violet to "lavender-blue, 

 touched corn-flower blue." The hyacinths are 

 these: Count Andrassy, Enchantress, General van 

 der Heyden, Grand Maitre, King of the Blues, 

 Schotel. Fifty of each were set in long, loose 

 groups among other loose groups of the daffodils, 

 running down a slope beneath Japanese quince 

 and cedar; this planting is only some sixty to 

 seventy feet from the southeast corner of the 

 house, and lies in and out of an almost invisible 

 wire fence, and very near the sidewalk, for a dis- 



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