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little distance, where the originals may still be 
seen, and planted in rows as borders to the 
kitchen-garden paths. After some ten or 
fifteen years of good rich heavy soil there are no 
single daffodils to be seen in the whole garden, 
except in some grass under trees, where they 
remain as planted, unaltered in the poor soil. 
I may add that daffodils were periodically 
brought in from the wood and planted out in 
that garden, but everyone has turned double, 
like the Telemonius variety. 
We all know, and the authorities admit that 
some much improved variety, such as parrot 
tulips, when left in poor soil for some years, 
will revert to the wild type ; and if they admit 
that, I cannot see why the reverse process 
should be scoffed at as beyond the bounds of 
possibility. Such is the case, however. 
Omphalodes verna must be planted in quantity 
in the spring garden, together with the wild 
wood anemone, and Anemone blanda and 
Robinsoniu They are of the loveliest china-blue 
tints, and should not be planted where the grass 
is too thick. Anemone sylvestris does not mind 
where it is planted, and is a most persistent 
plant, seeding freely everywhere. 
Adonis verna lis will flower earlier in the 
wild garden than in the borders, and so will the 
