is a certain bareness about the soil which is detrimental to the best effect, 
while even the medium-sized Trumpet varieties have a certain fullness 
and regularity of bloom which suggests the more formal garden. Hap- 
pily, this defect occurs only the first season; but nevertheless the short- 
cupped sections are the most pleasing for naturalizing in large areas. 
If, however, your wood-lot adjoins the lawn, a few Trumpet Narcissi in 
the foreground make a lovely effect ; and in this connection I can recom- 
mend bicolor Horsfieldii most highly. Year after year it blooms pro- 
fusely, and has never yet failed me. P. R. Barr and Grandee lengthen 
the same general effect of color by their successive period of bloom, 
though P. R. Barr is more yellow' in tone than the other two. As for 
Princeps, it refuses to bloom for me after the second season. Golden 
Spur, Obvallaris and Santa Maria are quite the most dependable of the 
yellow kinds, and can be relied upon to contrast pleasingly with Hors- 
fieldii for a part of its period of bloom. There are also excellent smaller 
Trumpet vareities, such as Minor, Nanus and the tiny Minimus, all quite 
charming in their association with Crocii, Chionodoxas, Muscarii and 
other numerous small bulbs and early flowering plants; but the use of 
these is limited to comparatively limited areas. 
For large effects, the medium- and short-cupped sections are unsur- 
passed; and in this connection Poeticus Ornatus combines well with 
Mertensia Virginica and Maidenhair fern. Leedsii Mrs. Langtry is the 
most profuse of bloomers, and Barri Conspicuous blooms freely even 
well back in the woods. 
For one desiring late season Narcissi, the Barri section in this respect 
is even richer in number than the Poeticus. 
Whether one plants large or small a^eas, it is far wiser to group 
together those varieties which bloom at about the same time, thus assur- 
ing one a perennial gratification in an unfailing scheme of contrast and 
combination of color. 
IRew Books 
"EVERYDAY IN MY GARDEN" by Virginia E. Verplanck 
Wm. R. Jenkins Co., Publishers 
At last we have a useful Garden Calendar! 
We have seldom seen a book better suited to the needs of a begin- 
ner, nor, indeed, for the amateur expert of today — for are not all our 
experts too busy slaving in God's Garden of Souls in this year of suffer- 
ing and need the world over to remember times and seasons? 
So, in between charity meetings and Red Cross needs, open the 
calendar and read Mrs. Verplank's clear and terse reminders of what is 
pressing to be done in the garden for the day or week. 
To the beginner I will say that if each plant seems to need a great 
deal of food and medicine (the ferns, like some children, get castor oil 
after the Fourth of July celebrations), do not be discouraged. Given a 
good garden soil to begin with, water and cultivation give satisfactory 
results and lovely flowers; yet if the formulas herein given for each 
