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early and late flowering species which may be massed 

 close to each other without prejudicing the effect, since 

 the flowers of the former will have withered before the 

 latter has commenced to expand its blossoms. In some 

 soils certain species appear to be more at home in grass 

 than in tilled ground, this being the case with N. 

 pallidus precox, N. obvallaris, N. tortuosus and its 

 allies and Queen of Spain in diverse localities. Good 

 varieties for naturalising are the Tenby Daffodil (JV. 

 obvallaris), a golden yellow trumpet, and one of the 

 earliest to flower ; Golden Spur, maximus and Emperor, 

 yellow trumpets \ Horsfieldii, Empress, Grandee and the 

 newer Victoria, bicolor trumpets, with the white trumpet, 

 Madame de Graaff, where money is little object \ Queen 

 of Spain, a small, clear, yellow trumpet ; the great 

 incomparablis Sir Watkin, and others of the same 

 section such as Stella, Cynosure and Frank Miles, the 

 Star Daffodils (JV1 Leedsii), N. Burbidgei, Barrii con- 

 spicuus and the Pheasant's eye group, of which the 

 most easily procurable are the early poeticus ornatus, 

 the later flowering poeticus poetarum and poeticus 

 recurvus and the double Gardenia-flowered daffodil 

 {poeticus plenus). Small growing species such as 

 JV. minimus, N. cyclamineus and N. triandrus are better 

 suited by pockets of porous soil on some rocky slope, 

 where they will often reproduce themselves freely from 

 seed. 



Allium. — A race better fitted for the wild garden 

 than the border, on account of the garlic-like smell 

 emitted from the bruised leaves. Many species may 

 be naturalised, the most effective being the white A. 

 neapolitanum and the yellow A. Moly. 



Chionodoxa. — Glory of the Snow. Charming blue- 

 flowered spring bulbs. C. sardensis is the deepest 

 coloured, but C. Lucilia has larger flowers with a 

 greater proportion of white in them. They are 



