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already seen and thought would be suitable, or 
such as I was told of by some one who understood. 
Spring flowers certainly never can be unwel- 
come. 
Cloth of Gold Crocus is a delightful hardy kind, 
peeping out, I think, amongst the very earliest, 
and always so very welcome with its yellow coat 
striped with brown. The little Scotch Crocus is 
another early hardy one, and Versicolor is another, 
with less of white and more of purple than the 
Scotch kind has. 
Of larger and finer sorts there is a great variety. 
Mary Stuart, La Neige, and Queen Victoria are 
very good white kinds, and Uranus and Sir Walter 
Scott are very fine large purple ones. 
There are also large yellow, and large pale prim- 
rose kinds. But these larger sorts I prefer, myself, 
for baskets and window gardens — the little hardy 
things do so well outside, and make the beds so 
gay. Besides, they are very cheap, which is a 
consideration, though Crocuses are things that do 
go on increasing year after year delightfully. 
Snowdrops, again, are things of which you can- 
not have too many — but I daresay you will be 
shocked at my liking Daffodils — and perhaps they 
are more fit for a border than for a bed. 
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