One or two Crocuses are naturalised in England already, and there is scarcely one of them that will not succeed thus if properly placed. They should not be placed where coarse vegetation would choke them up or prevent the sun getting to their flowers and leaves. Some of the delicately-tinted varieties of vermis are well worth dotting about in grassy places and on sunny slopes, if only to accompany the snowdrop. C. Imperati is a valuable early-flowering kind, and the autumnal flowering ones are particularly desirable ; but we must not particularise where all are good. "In the plantations here," writes a correspondent, "on each side of a long avenue, we have the common Crocus in every shade of purple (there are scarcely any yellow ones) growing literally in hundreds of thousands. We have no record of when the roots were originally planted (and the oldest people about the estate say they have always been the same as far as their recollection goes) ; but they grow so thickly that it is quite impossible to step where they are without treading on two or three flowers. The effect produced by them in spring is magnificent, but unfortunately, their beauty is but short-lived. I have transplanted a good many roots to the wild garden, to the great improvement of the size of the individual blooms ; they are so matted together in the shrubberies I have mentioned, and have remained so long in the same place, that the flowers are small."

The foliage of the Meadow Saffron in Spring.