. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . to the snowdropspunctuality, causing a considerable variation in thedate of flowering. On the west coast of ScotlandI have gathered the first snowdrop on 19th Decemberin one winter; in other seasons not until 8th or 10thJanuary. In the year aforesaid, I asked Mr. Dorrien Smith,than whom nobody has a more thorough understand-ing of bulbs and their behaviour, whether he hadnoticed in Scilly any precocity in the snowdrop bloomcorresponding to that of the narcissus. Snowdrops! said he, we cant grow them inScilly
. Scottish gardens; being a representative selection of different types, old and new . to the snowdropspunctuality, causing a considerable variation in thedate of flowering. On the west coast of ScotlandI have gathered the first snowdrop on 19th Decemberin one winter; in other seasons not until 8th or 10thJanuary. In the year aforesaid, I asked Mr. Dorrien Smith,than whom nobody has a more thorough understand-ing of bulbs and their behaviour, whether he hadnoticed in Scilly any precocity in the snowdrop bloomcorresponding to that of the narcissus. Snowdrops! said he, we cant grow them inScilly. We are too hot for them. Neither do they prosper on most parts of theeast coast; they will grow, indeed, and flower, butthey do not multiply or luxuriate. No: if you wantto enjoy snowdrops at their finest, you must go, notwhere there is most snow, as in the midland andeastern regions, nor where there is least snow, inScilly and southern England, but to the west whereclouds in winter droop low and weep long, wherethe tooth of frost seldom strikes so deep as to arrestall growth. 24. ^^
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