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The Narcissus, both yellow and white, is like- 

 wise excellently adapted for the same purpose. 

 The leaves are of themselves ornamental, and the 

 flowers seem still more beautiful, when we see 

 them in a wood, than in a garden, where their 

 commonness detracts considerably from their effect. 

 The bulbs of the narcissus should be planted in the 

 month of October, not singly, but in pretty large 

 clusters, and covered about an inch deep with earth. 

 The Snow-drop, Star of Bethlehem, large Turncap 

 Lily, and Crocus, are all bulbous plants, that may 

 be removed to the forest as companions to the nar- 

 cissus in October. 



The common perennial or Kamschatka Lu- 

 pine, one of the most ornamental of the hardier 

 kinds of flowers, may be introduced as success- 

 fully as any into woods. It may be propagated 

 either by seeds, cuttings, or oflPsets; but the last 

 method is to be preferred as the readiest, and as 

 being attended with the least trouble. Half a 

 dozen of plants of it, will, in a few years, increase 

 to thousands, without the slightest attention on the 

 part of the gardener. Its roots are so prolific in 

 sending forth young plants, that in the pleasure- 

 ground it is often necessary to dig many of them 

 up, and consign them, like weeds, to the dunghil ; 



