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ladder — all of which will grow under trees. 
In very dark places, where flowers would not 
bloom well, ferns might be grown. The winter 
could be spent in getting a place ready, and 
the ferns be planted in the spring. Try and 
collect a few large stones and bits of old roots 
and some good leaf mould from the nearest 
wood, mix up well with the soil, and arrange 
given, you will find several flowers that do not 
mind the shade, such as cyclamen, London 
pride, hepaticas, Omphalodes verna, and marta- 
gon lilies ; and there are others—Solomon’s 
seal, Trillium , periwinkle, lilies of the valley, 
foam flower or Tiarella, Polemonium or Jacob’s 
LILIES OF THE VALLEY AND FOAM FLOWER 
