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yellow of two other small early kinds — N. nanus and 

 the charming little N. minor, quite distinct though so 

 often confounded with nanus in gardens. With these, 

 and in other strips and patches towards the end of the 

 border, are plantings of the Golden Valerian, so useful 

 for its bright yellow foliage quite early in the year- 

 The leaves of the Orange Day-hly are also of a pale 

 yellowish-green colour when they first come up, and 

 are used at the end of the border. These plants of 

 golden and pale foliage are also placed in a further 

 region beyond the plan, and show to great advantage 

 as the eye enfilades the border and reaches the more 

 distant places. Before the end of the bulb-border is 

 reached there is once more a drift of harmonised faint 

 pink colouring of Megasea and the little Fumaria, 

 (also known as Corydalis bulbosa) with the pale early 

 Pyrenean Daffodil, N. pallidus prcecox. W.-triaK<itus ^ 



The bulb-flowers are not all in bloom exactly at the 

 same time, but there is enough of the colour intended 

 to give the right effect in each grouping. Standing 

 at the end, just beyond the Dog-tooth Violets, the 

 arrangement and progression of colour is pleasant 

 and interesting, and in some portions vivid ; the pure 

 blues in the middle spaces being much enhanced by 

 the yellow flowers and golden foliage that follow. 



A nearly similar arrangement of flowers for earliest 

 spring has been made at a place where a path from 

 the lawn branches into three grassy ways up into the 

 copse. The planted promontory is a bank rising 

 from the grass paths and is set with a few large stones. 

 As it is backed by Hollies and Junipers, and then by 



