A MARCH STUDY ^ 



of Forsythia suspensa, tossing out many-feet-long 

 branches loaded with their burden of clear yellow 

 flowers. They are ten to twelve feet high, and one 

 looks up at much of the bloom clear-cut against the 

 pure blue of the sky ; the upper part of the Magnolia 

 also shows against the sky. Here there is a third 

 flower-picture ; this time of warm white and finest 

 yellow on brilliant blue, and out in open sunhght. 

 Among the Forsythias is also a large bush of Magnolia 

 stellata, whose milk-white flowers may be counted by 

 the thousand. As the earlier M. conspicua goes out of 

 bloom it comes into full bearing, keeping pace with 

 the Forsythia, whose season runs on well into April. 



It is always a little difficult to find suitable places 

 for the early bulbs. Many of them can be enjoyed in 

 rough and grassy places, but we also want to combine 

 them into pretty living pictures in the garden proper. 



Nothing seems to me more unsatisfactory than the 

 usual way of having them scattered about in small 

 patches in the edges of flower-borders, where they 

 only show as little disconnected dabs of colour, and 

 where they are necessarily in danger of disturbance 

 and probable injury when their foliage has died down 

 and their places are wanted for summer flowers. 



It was a puzzle for many years to know how to 

 treat these early bulbs, but at last a plan was devised 

 that. seems so satisfactory that I have no hesitation 

 in advising it for general adoption. 



On the further side of a path that bounds my June 

 garden is a border about seventy feet long and ten 

 feet wide. At every ten feet along the back is a 



