. The wild garden; or, Our groves and gardens made beautiful by the naturalisation of hardy exotic plants ... Gardening; Flowers; Wild flowers. Star of Bethlehem, in Grass. CHAPTEE III. EXAMPLE FEOM HARDY BULBS AND TUBERS IN GRASS. We will now turn from the Forget-me-not order to a very different type of vegetation—hardy bulbs and other plants dying down after flowering early in the year, like the Winter Aconite and the Blood-root (Sanguinaria). How many of us really enjoy the beauty which a judicious use of a profusion of hardy Spring-flowering Bulbs affords ? How many get beyond the miserabl
. The wild garden; or, Our groves and gardens made beautiful by the naturalisation of hardy exotic plants ... Gardening; Flowers; Wild flowers. Star of Bethlehem, in Grass. CHAPTEE III. EXAMPLE FEOM HARDY BULBS AND TUBERS IN GRASS. We will now turn from the Forget-me-not order to a very different type of vegetation—hardy bulbs and other plants dying down after flowering early in the year, like the Winter Aconite and the Blood-root (Sanguinaria). How many of us really enjoy the beauty which a judicious use of a profusion of hardy Spring-flowering Bulbs affords ? How many get beyond the miserable conventionalities of the flower-garden, with its edgings and patchings, and taking up, and drying, and mere playing with our beautiful Spring Bulbs ? How many enjoy the exquisite beauty afforded by flowers of this class, established naturally, without troubling us for attention at any time ? The subject of decorating with Spring-flowering Bulbs is merely in its infancy; at present we merely place a few of the showiest of them in geometrical lines. The little we do leads to such a very poor result, that numbers of people,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935. London, J. Murray; New York, Scribner and Welford
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