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HOME A^^B FLOWEBS 



.NiARTHA WASHINGTON OAK, AUBUBON PARK. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 

 Photo by Mrs. G. T. Drennan. 



MAECH IX S OUT HE EX G A E D E X S 



By Airs. G. T. Drennan 



[All questions regarding floricultnre. from the Ohio and Potomac Elvers to the Gulf of 

 Mexico — which are the limits of Southern gardens — vrill receive careful attention and prompt 

 responses.] 



The Daffodil. — Gay in its tints of prim- 

 rose yellow, this lovely flower, always a 

 comj)onent of the flower gardens of En- 

 rope, was by the old botanists called the 

 ''Easter Lily/^ Classifications of flowers 

 are now so correct that the daffodil is never 

 called a lily. It has claims^ however, as 

 an Easter flower fit for decoration side by 

 side with the fairest, the stateliest and 

 sweetest of the true Easter lily. 



Easter is movable; the daffodil persis- 

 tent. It blooms early, somewhat in ad- 

 vance of Easter, and continues for some 

 time after, therefore is at its charming 

 best on March or April Easter morning 

 over a wide range of climates. The blooms 

 approximate the lily more nearly than 

 any other biilbons fiowers of spring. 



Twin flower with the daffodil, the jon- 

 qttil blooms in deep chrome yellow, and 

 contrasts its cn23-and-saucer shape with 

 the bold trumpet form of the lighter 

 primrose. 



These are the bulbs to plant for per- 

 manent effect. The tendency of the pres- 

 ent day is to construct gardens of long- 

 lived, hardy plants. For gardens that 

 are to exist indefinitely daff'odils and jon- 

 quils are not surpassed. 



All old Southern gardens were gay with 

 daffodils and jonquils, bright as sunshine, 

 and it is their nature to naturalize them- 

 selves and cling forever to the fostering 

 soil. On occasions of despoiling old gar- 

 dens of these bulbs the depth of soil after 

 long lapse of years since they were planted 



