SPRING AND AUTUMN 
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a shady spot, and flowers in March and April. 
Leucojum vernum shows its white and green 
blossoms from February to April and likes 
moist, cool shade. Erica carnea , though not 
herbaceous, is so lovely in the spring, with pale 
pink flowers from February to May, that it can- 
not be omitted, and looks very well with* snow- 
drops growing through it. Snowdrops will 
be a lovely addition to a slightly shaded spring 
garden, and the different varieties will flower 
in succession from January to the end of March, 
beginning with nivalis and its newer forms 
Elwesii and Fosteri , both very large flowering 
kinds, and plicatus , the largest and latest of all. 
In naturalising snowdrops here I have found 
that those sent up from Wales, where they 
grow wild, have spread to a far greater extent 
than those of all kinds bought from the usual 
trade sources and planted in the same wild 
garden twelve years ago. 
The double pale mauve periwinkles, with 
very small leaves and flowers like a Parma violet, 
have established themselves in this spring wild 
garden till they might almost be called wild. 
There is also another variety growing there 
which is rather later, flowering at the end of 
March with small white single flowers and 
golden leaves, and these make a better carpet 
