EARLIER FLOWERS 



peared. The white crocus, Kathleen Parlow, was 

 here seen running into masses of blue Scilla 

 sibirica, with groups of yellow crocus near by; be- 

 yond all these one saw reaches of purple and 

 white. This gay color covered some twenty-five 

 square feet, and the blues lost themselves in the 

 distance, trailing among young Juniperus sabina. 

 Here and there among these scillas, which have 

 naturalized themselves with remarkable freedom, 

 were groups of narcissi in bud. Yellowish buds 

 of hyacinth Adelaide Ristori, too, were here. The 

 white crocus nestling among the blue flowers and 

 running through them in the manner of a free 

 woodland planting, made a picture to remember; 

 the tall blue bells of scilla were all among the white 

 flowers, actually hung over them in places. This 

 was the order of colors as I set it down hastily at 

 the time: deep purple, a little white among, then 

 purple, yellow, blue, next lavender, yellow again 

 with clusters of purple, then white with a little 

 yellow beyond, the white running off into a field 

 of vivid blue. The purples, lavenders, whites, 

 and yellows were all crocuses, the blues that purest 

 blue of Scilla sibirica. This planting might readily 

 be carried out in annual flowers, to bloom in early 

 summer or midsummer. It furnishes, too, the 



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