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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...if they find the soil they like and a few stones to crawl over. But there are a good many unobtrusive little plants which flower with the Peaches and would be an addition to the picture, such, for instance, as the double white Wood Anemone--nemorosa flore pleno--white Violets, any Primroses, such as the double white or Harbinger, or the invaluable double Arabis, which starts with such a pretty effect of cream buds before its moment of whiteness. It is a rich time of the year for plants of this description, and the choice of bulbs is even greater--the only difficulty lies in selection, MAGNOLIA THIS sketch is of another of the garden pictures to be seen Magnolia at Kew in April, but it is not everywhere that this lovely Stellata Magnolia stellata can be grown so well. I have tried it and other for several years myself, and it makes no growth at all. Probably Varieties it is one of the plants which resent lime in the soil, or our spring winds may be too cold. At Kew the bushes, when out, are protected at night if there is danger of a frost, or all the white flowers would be tipped with brown. I am giving it another trial on a wall, and have planted next it Prunus triloba flore pleno; the two should be lovely together, as the Japanese shrub will reach to the top of an eight-foot wall, and make a mass of fluffy pink flower; indeed, I can imagine nothing more beautiful for the time of year than its long sprays, shaded from pale pink to the bright pink buds at the tips, grouped with the Magnolia against a grey stone wall. But the Magnolia should be grown also as a bush on the lawn, alone, or, as I prefer, with colour above and below, as its petals are so dead a white, with no noticeable stamens to relieve them. The early months are rich in...

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