34 The Young Gardener. 
Then for the perennials ; that is, the plants 
■^hich live on for years. You ought to have some 
Hepaticas, with their pretty red and blue flowers, 
and some hardy Heaths, and some Violets, and a 
great many double Primroses, yellow, and white, 
and lilac. There should be, too, some Wall-flowers, 
because they smell so sweet, and if you keep them 
low and bushy they make pretty evergreens. You 
can also have some blue Periwinkles. 
Anemones sometimes will blossom quite in the 
winter, and when they do they are very pretty — 
^nd a most charming plant again is the Auricula, 
with its white powdery leaves which look as if 
they had been dusted in a flour mill ! I always 
was very fond of the Auricula — not to keep in a 
frame, but for a garden plant ; and though the 
white, and yellow, and dark maroon Auriculas may 
not be the finest sorts, they seem to me delight- 
ful, and well deserve the little room they take up 
in the border. 
Amongst the shrubs in blossom are Almonds 
and sweet Daphnes. Then there is the blue Gen- 
tian, which is very beautiful, and with which I 
had once a little round bed filled, so that it looked 
most brilliant— this, however, blossoms later than 
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