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wilder parts of the grounds. The Daffodil, N. 'pseudo- 
narcissus is well known, and by no means to be despised, and 
is the more worthy of mention here because it offers a few 
splendid varieties, such as Bicolor , Major , and Minor , which are 
distinct in character, and admirably adapted to form inte¬ 
resting clumps in the shade of trees. W. bulbocodium, the 
“ hoop petticoat,” is an extremely pretty diminutive kind. 
N. juncifolius, the “ rush-leaved ” narciss, is an exquisitely 
beautiful miniature plant, adapted for the front of a rockery, 
and well worthy of pot-culture. 
(Enothera (Evening Primrose).—The common evening 
primrose is but a poor representative of this fine family of showy, 
hardy, fragrant, interesting plants. The best herbaceous kinds 
will grow in almost any soil or situation, but thrive best in a 
light dry loam in full exposure to the sunshine. If, however, 
the soil is wet and cold they may be treated as biennials, for 
they make abundance of seed, and only need the most ordinary 
frame cultivation until the season arrives for planting them 
out. CE. JDrummondi is a neat downy plant, with bright yellow 
flowers; on a warm soil long-lived, on a cold soil it soon dies 
away, and must be kept up by means of seeds or cuttings. 
CE. Fraseri , a neat plant, two feet high, producing abundance 
of bright yellow flowers. On our cold soil it stands well, and 
is one of our favourites for the plunging system. QC. macro - 
carjpa is a very showy and peculiar-looking plant, producing 
large yellow flowers. It requires a dry warm soil to stand 
its ground. CE . marginata , 9 inches, flowers white and fragrant, 
stands well on any soil. CE. taraxacifolia is in leafage like a 
dandelion; its large pure white, or pale yellow flowers are 
plentifully produced all the summer long, being in perfection 
soon after sunset. 
Pjeonia (The Pseony Pose).—Gaudy, scentless, and short¬ 
lived are all the pasonies, yet no one who has seen a good 
plantation of the best sorts in flower would be in haste to 
exclude them from the select list of the handsomest and 
hardiest of herbaceous plants. When well-grown, every 
separate plant will form a mass of herbage equal in breadth 
to an ordinary flower-bed, or say, two or three yards across, 
and will produce forty or fifty flowers, each about the size of 
a man’s head, borne on stout stems four or five feet high. 
They will live and flower in any soil, and in deep shade, and 
the worst place in a town garden will afford them a sub- 
