In the Garden The number of newer varieties of popular
flowers is so great in these days that it is seldom possible, or wise, to say which is the best. We can give only our individual preferences. Among daffodils recently produced by our growers one that peculiarly pleases me is "Egret." The type is a favourite with many people : the broad white petals and very short open tube of a primrose yellow. Egret excels the rest prin- cipally in size : the petals are longer and broader than in its predecessors, and it is a "good doer." Personally I have found the Leedsii type to flourish particularly well in rough conditions. A this year's tulip, "Advance," also excels in size, but its master feature is the combination of a purple hue at the outside base of the flower with brown red towards the mouth. This is a Lincolnshire "creation," and goes as handsomely with forget-me-not or what you will as De Witt himself. The gardens round about the Wash now produce quite as good daffodils and tulips—the two bulbs to which most attention is paid—as the gardens on the east side of the shallow valley that we call the North Sea.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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