A Simple Squill 
I saw a Squill at break of day 
Under the budding trees; 
A squill so mystical and gay, 
So full of certainties. 
No one, I think, could view it long 
Except upon his knees. 
Yet this was but a simple Squill 
Under the April trees. 
(After W. A. Percy) 
The tiny Snowdrops, braving snow and cold 
weather, never fail to warm your heart in antici- 
pation of Spring. 
These and a host of Scillas, Muscari, not to 
forget the Miniature Daffodils and Crocus, should 
grace everybody's garden; they are lovely in 
themselves, wherever they are planted in groups 
of 25 or more, under trees, along the woodland 
path, close to the house in the shrubbery border. 
They are most effectively shown off when 
planted amongst groundcovers; Ajuga repens or 
myrtle, for instance, can harbor the tiniest, where- 
as Muscari and Scilla Campanulata are well at 
home amongst Pachysandra terminalis. 
Ss 
