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like nutans, giving quite a different effect from that of the 

 common white border kind. There is no trouble in growing 

 these in the grass. 



The Snowflakes (Leucojum) do admirably, the early one 

 being a more precious flower than the Snowdrop, useful to 

 gather, and all brightly effective very early. The later ones 

 are also graceful things, free and handsome in rich grass. 



Living in a world of Wood Hyacinths, there was less need 

 to try the Scillas than the strictly non-British flowers, which 

 give us new aspects of flower life ; but so far the results have 

 been good with the Spanish Scilla and the new Scilla-like 

 plants (Chionodoxa), which are early and disappear early. 



To this sort of flower-gardening, which extends so much the in- 

 terest in flower life, the trade might do great good by offering such 

 bulbs and roots as these at lowest possible rates by the thousand. 

 It would pay cultivators well to grow such roots in quantity for 

 the public, as it now pays Lincolnshire farmers to grow the 

 Snowdrop for the trade in that popular flower. The whole 

 success of wild gardening depends on arranging bold, natural 

 groups with a free hand, and it cannot be done without quantity. 

 It means an enormous addition to the bulb trade, and to a 

 healthy, and what ought to be a British industry, the growth in 

 quantity of the hardier bulbs, for which many parts of our 

 country are perfectly suited. 



The scope of this paper, it will be seen, leaves out several 

 very important phases of wild gardening, in which the plants 

 do not die early in the year, but adorn it long after those men- 

 tioned have perished, if not with bloom, at least with foliage — 

 such as the tall Polygonums, too free for the flower-garden, 

 which do admirably with me in rough places outside the garden, 

 the stems being handsome even in winter. So also are the 

 Solomon's Seal, Lily-of-the-Valley, Evening Primrose, Globe 

 Flower, Japan Anemone, and many other flowers of later bloom 

 and growth. Indeed, it mainly concerns that beautiful early 

 hardy flower life which blossoms before the grass of our fields 

 begins to grow freely. 



