ANY amateur gardeners will recall the charming little 

 grape hyacinths shown in so many exhibits last 

 Spring at the International Flower Show held at the 

 Grand Central Palace here in New York. 



One of the prize winning exhibits, composed entirely 

 of hardy Spring flowers, featured these exquisite grape hyacinths. 



I recall how all the narrow pebbled paths of this exhibit were 

 edged with these adorable grape hyacinths, and how the hardy 

 Maiden-hair ferns towered over them and over Spanish and 

 Asiatic and Dutch Iris and Golden Columbines, the long spurred 

 hybrid Chrysantha towered over the Maiden-hair ferns, and 

 formal tufts of Hybrid Viola atropurpurea filled in the spaces 

 between the grape hyacinths and the Iris. How wonderfully all 

 the lovely tulip family graced this exhibit, from the tall and im- 

 perious Darwins to the modest miniature " Due von Thol " tulips, 

 the Dutch Hyacinths, Daffodils, Narcissi and Jonquils, French 

 and Irish Anemones, de Caen and St. Brigid, Violas cornuta, and 

 Asiatic Iris. This exhibit was shown and grown by an amateur 

 gardener, and I think was unquestionably the favorite individual 

 garden featuring only hardy Spring flowers. 

 ^ The narrow paths in an herbaceous garden may ^ 



III be made permanently beautiful with these grape hya- y 

 cinths, Violas cornuta, hybrid Viola atropurpurea, the 

 dwarf and tall Maiden-hair ferns, the Spanish and 

 Dutch Iris, Columbines (using only the long spurred 



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