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HERBACEOUS GARDEN 
clumps of white and orange sweet-peas until 
the heleniums and Pyrethrum uliginosum in their 
turn are ready, or of the groups of big sun- 
flowers, which would be deeply mourned by 
some should it be decided to do without our 
friends the annuals. 
Bulbs, it has been held, are quite permissible 
in a herbaceous border, and they certainly 
fulfil the requirement of dying down in the 
winter. Some of them, alas ! do not always 
come up again, are either eaten by mice, or 
are rotted with the damp, or they break up into 
bulblets and off-shoots which, through not 
being taken up and transplanted at the right 
time, eventually die out — starved out, in fact. 
The early-bedding tulips and hyacinths come 
into this class, and are not satisfactory to use. 
But take the Gesner tulip or Bouton d’Or 
(golden crown) : they will flourish for years in 
the same place. The newer cottage and 
Darwin tulips are, however, better taken up 
each spring and replanted, although they will 
occasionally flourish without attention, notably 
some of the very dark varieties. 
Daffodils or Narcissi may be left from year 
to year, and come up smiling ; not only the 
early-flowering ones, but also pheasant-eye 
and the double narcissus, which make hand- 
