ANNUALS AND BULBS 
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some clumps. Their foliage can easily be tied 
up out of the way or pegged down to 
ripen. Where the border is planted for 
summer and autumn it is best to rely on bulbs 
almost entirely for colour earlier in the year, 
as the camassia and double narcissus, the 
latest of them, will merge pleasantly into the 
pure flowering Oriental poppies and lupins. 
Snowdrop and crocus come up in un- 
expected places all over the border here. 
The former look their best when springing 
through a carpet of pinky-red Mediterranean 
heather, being in flower at the same time, and 
are so treated in large beds at Windsor Castle. 
Iris reticulata , dark violet and sweet-scented, 
and Iris stylosa , with bright green foliage and 
lovely mauve blossoms, are the next to flower. 
After them in gay succession come double 
daffodils, chionodoxas and scillas, both pale 
blue, and dog’s-tooth violet ; then through 
the whole gamut of Narcissi, beginning with 
Lent lilies and ending with the double-flowered 
kind ; grape hyacinths or muscari, of which 
there are several kinds, white, Cambridge blue, 
Heavenly Blue, and the old dark blue (a bad 
robber this last, and not advised), and plumosus, 
the mauve-plumed variety, a foot high. Then 
we get the purple-blue ixiolirions, which with 
