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About April, too, there are the many Tulips, 
the Hyacinth and Scilla, the Jonquille and Narcis- 
sus ; these are all hardy bulbs that will flower 
delightfully. 
A very great prize indeed is an Azalea or a 
plant perhaps of some hardy Rhododendron. The 
Ribes, or Flowering Currant, again, is very pretty ; 
and who does not like a double-flowering Gorze, 
with its warm sweet scent and the hum of the bees 
that haunt it. 
Sweetbriars, again, should be in every garden ; 
scarlet and pink Thorns are also pretty things— 
they grow to be lovely trees with their waving 
wreaths of bloom. 
Lilies of the Valley deserve to be well remem- 
bered, and they will grow under shrubs. Their 
bells begin to open just when the Cuckoo comes, 
so that I can remember sometimes hearing the 
Cuckoo first, just while I was busy seeking to find 
a Lily. 
The great purple double Violets come later than 
the single ones so as to keep our gardens for a- 
long while scented. 
Roses are beginning long before Violets go, 
and the Stocks and Larkspurs, Lilies and Irises, 
Campanulas and Carnations, Geraniums and Ver- 
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