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W. Burbidge, and these are now easily bought. 
There are still newer beauties, too rare for any 
child to aspire to. Next come the varieties 
with a shorter, more cup-like trumpet. The 
incomparabilis belong to this section, and classed 
in it is the well-known “ butter and eggs.” 
Among the fine garden varieties belonging to 
this group are Sir Watkin and C. J. Backhouse, 
and Barii conspicua and Leedsii. Then there 
are the jonquils, a kind found wild in Spain 
and deliciously sweet-scented. Next come the 
Tazetta or polyanthus group, with several 
flowers on one stem. There are various wild 
types of this group and many garden ones, such 
as “Grand Monarque,” “ Soleil dor,” “ Scilly 
white ” and “ Paper white ” ; and, last, we 
come to the group with still shorter cups and 
large petals, the Poeticus varieties. The wild 
“pheasant’s eye” belongs to this type, and 
other garden varieties, such as Poeticus ornatus, 
and they too are very sweet-scented. Bulbs of 
all these kinds must be planted early in the 
autumn, and they will flower well from March 
to May. Put them in good soil, and they will 
increase, and be all the better for being taken 
up and divided every two or three years. 
We have thought of pink primroses already, 
but the real “yellow primrose” of our woods 
must not be left out, nor another flower, the 
