English Bulbs
Naturalisation bulbs, so called, are now to be obtained from a number of English growers, in Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire ; and on the whole these growers, who started on a small scale not very long ago, distribute rather better varieties than their predecessors in this department of the trade. We are usually told when planting bulbs in grass to throw them down and let chance make the arrangement ; but one great specialist in a serious book on the daffodil has made the suggestion that a good pattern to aim at is a fish with one half of the tail omitted ! He does not suggest whether, for instance, a skate or conger eel or fried whiting would be the best model. The old-fashioned double has a special gift for multiplying itself in the very roughest places. It is one of the earliest, and the pheasant-eye, which I have found to flourish surprisingly in a rough grass field, is among the latest ; and it is not a bad plan to plant in close juxta- position those whose flowering dates are most widely separated.
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