Scillas open their blue eyes and not seeing us, sigh, 

 wish the snowdrops adieu and depart. It is only 

 those fortunate enough to come to the country 

 very early and remain very late who realize the 

 va^ness of Nature's ^ore. But then, we have the 

 Darwins you say. Yes, we have the Darwins, and I 

 hope they will be planted this Fall with ungrudg- 

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^ Do you know that there is no true yellow, or 

 gold Darwin tulip? Strange — is it not? — that 

 among all the marvelous hues, that gold and 

 yellow alone are absent. Inglescombe Yellow, is 

 the counterpart in form of the Darwin but it is a 

 May flowering cottage tulip, not a Darwin. So is 

 majestic Ellen Willmott, and so are Moonlight and 

 Vitellina. Therefore to secure our gold flowers in 

 the Darwin border we necessarily mu^ introduce 

 the Cottage to the Kings and Queens of tulip-land, 

 confident of their welcome. Do they not bring the 

 one hue lacking — gold ? 



^ Pale-hued pansies and forget-me-nots will form 

 a delicate carpet for our borders through which in 

 lately measure the pageant of the gorgeous 

 Darwins may pass. 



^ Baron de la Tonnaye although a Baron, blush- 



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