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pans, or soup-plates, or china bowls, and in plant- 
ing dower-pots full, as well as in placing some of 
your roots in water-glasses. 
The kinds I use myself are single Hyacinths 
only, and of these I like particularly the Minia- 
ture or Bouquet Hyacinths, which grow about 
four or five inches high and are most exceedingly 
pretty. ; 
I always have a great many of these, blue, and 
white, and pink — and then have a good many also 
of the large fine kinds, which grow up like pillars 
of flowers and are very beautiful. Then there are 
dwarf Tulips, little brilliant flowers with the most 
delicious scent, and the lovely Snowdrops with 
their bending heads, and the little bright blue 
Scillas, which you would, I am sure, agree with 
me in calling little beauties. Crocuses too are 
very nice to have, if you have room to spare, and 
the large white and purple kinds are the best in 
that case. 
Narcissus Bulbocodium is a pretty bright yellow 
flower with long green grassy leaves, and the 
Cyclamen Persicum, with its white, red-spotted 
flowers, is a perfect gem. 
The Hyacinths cost about three shillings a 
dozen, the Tulips are much cheaper still, and the 
