Like many another distinguished gardener, Mr Arnott is a Scotsman, being a native of Dumfries, and now living in the adjoining county of Kirkcudbright. For the last fourteen years his name has been a familiar one to readers of the leading journals devoted to gardening, for he has been a very frequent contributor to The Gardener's Chronicle, The Gardener s Magazine, The Garden, The Journal of Horticulture, and other papers. Although not a professional gardener, Mr Arnott is a practical one, for he manages at least the flower department of his beautiful garden almost without assistance ; and having spent most of his life amongst flowers-his mother being a great gardener-he is a successful plant grower, as well as an interested one. Mr Arnott takes an active part in the work of encouraging the gardening spirit among his countrymen, and is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, as well as a member of other leading associations with similar aims. CONCERNING BULBS BY THE EDITOR Anyone who has observed ever so casually the order of flowering of the plants in garden or hedgerow, must have noticed that bulbous plants figure prominently amongst those which flower in the early months of the year. Winter Aconite, Snowdrop, Crocus, Scilla, Chionodoxa, Daffodil, Fritillary, Anemone, and Tulip are among the greatest treasures of the spring garden, and though these are not all strictly bulbous plants, they all have either bulbous, tuberous, or other enlarged form of root or underground stem which serves a like purpose. Even those early flowers, the primroses, are borne on plants whose thick, fleshy, underground parts are almost Gazette.) ORDER FROM YOUR BOOKSELLER Flowers of Parnassus A Series of Famous Poems Ilbistrated Under the General Editorship of F. B. MONEY-COUTTS Demy i6mo (5| x 4^i nches). Gilt top Bound in Cloth Price is. net Bound in Leather Price is. 6d. net Vol. I.~GRAY'S ELEGY AND ODE ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. With Twelve Illustrations by J. T. Friedenson. Vol. II.-THE STATUE AND THE BUST. By Robert Browning. With Nine Illustrations by Philip CONNARD. Vol in.-MARPESSA. By Stephen Phillips. With Seven Illustrations by Philip Connard. Vol. IV.-THE BLESSED DAMOZEL. By Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With Eight Illustrations by Percy BULCOCK. Vol. v.-THE NUT-BROWN MAID. A New Version by F. B. Money-Coutts. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole. Vol. VI.-A DREAM OF FAIR WOMEN. By Alfred Tennyson. With Nine Illustrations by Percy Bulcock. Vol. VII.-THE DAY DREAM. By Alfred Tennyson. With Eight Illustrations by Amelia Bauerle. Vol. VIII-A BALLADE UPON A WEDDING. By Sir John Suckling. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole. Vol. IX.-RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole. Vol. X.-THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. By Alexander Pope. With Nine Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Vol. XL-CHRISTMAS AT THE MERMAID. By Theodore Watts-Dunton. With Nine Illustrations by Herbert Cole. Vol. XII.-SONGS OF INNOCENCE.
