March  3,  1898. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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THE  WINTERLY  WAVE. 
ONE  of  our  poets  has  written  two  sonnets,  called 
respectively  “  Natura  Maligna”  and  “Natura 
Benigna.”  Now,  as  we  write,  the  two  aspects  of 
Nature  of  which  the  poet  tells  are  present  with  us. 
The  flowers  which  were  wooed  to  come  into  bloom 
by  the  mild  season  have  been  assailed  by  wintry 
winds  and  keen  frost,  and  have  been  covered  with 
snow.  To-day  the  sun  and  the  sea  breezes  have 
thawed  some  of  the  snow,  hut  much  of  it  still  lies, 
and  the  flowers  peep  through  its  thick  covering. 
With  this  keen  frost  and  coverlet  of  snow  our 
story  of  the  flowers  of  the  time  must  be  a  short 
one.  First  must  come  the  Daffodils,  at  the  sound 
of  whose  name  there  comes  a  flood  of  joyous 
thoughts.  Not  many  are  there  yet,  but  those 
which  have  come  give  us  much  delight.  The 
quaint  little  Narci.ssus  minimus  was  quite  hidden 
in  the  snow  until  the  sun  removed  its  covering 
and  again  gave  us  its  golden  trumpets  so  dainty 
and  small.  A  clump  of  N.  pallidus  prsecox,  on  a 
sunny  rockery,  were  bent  to  the  ground  and,  so 
far  as  could  be  seen,  looked  limp  and  lifeless.  As 
the  day  went  on  they  raised  themselves,  hut  though 
no  longer  prone,  could  not  throw  off  the  snow 
which  clung  to  their  perianths.  Singular,  yet  beau¬ 
tiful,  was  their  appearance.  Their  pale  yellow 
blossoms  looked  brighter  and  deeper  against  the 
snowy  carpet  from  which  they  sprang,  and  the 
mtches  of  snow  adhering  to  the  flowers  resembled 
some  white  foam  placed  there  to  heighten  their 
beauty.  The  deeper  yellow  flowers  of  the  Saragossa 
Daffodil  looked  brighter  as  they  raised  themselves 
in  the  border  not  far  from  their  paler  sisters  from 
;he  Pyrenees.  Others  there  were  just  ready  to 
open,  but  they  must  dally  yet  until  the  winds 
blow  with  softer  and  rhilder  breath.  Such  is  a 
description  of  the  weather  and  the  flow^ers  in 
Dumfriesshire. 
Wonderful,  too,  is  the  depth  of  colouring  shown 
by  the  common  yellow  Crocus  when  surrounded 
by  the  snow.  The" bulb  dealers  call  it  “golden 
yellow,”  but  emerging  through  the  white  carpet 
it  is  not  golden  yellow  but  deep  orange.  Deeper 
still  is  a  little  Crocus  which  came  here  from 
No.  2679.— VOL.  XCVIII.,  OLD  SERIES. 
