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heartened, but I think most of these things 

 will revive and sprout afresh. 



On the whole, thanks to the principle of 

 having only hardy subjects in my garden, 

 less damage has been done than I should 

 have expected. The crocuses and scillas, 

 though very late, were excessively beautiful 

 this year. I had, through the kindness of 

 my friend Miss Jekyll, the delight of seeing 

 several large patches of Puschinias in bloom 

 for the first time ; they are bulbs with 

 much resemblance of character to the Scilla 

 sibirica but the flowers are of a delicate 

 white with little longitudinal stripes of blue, 

 or rather blue mingled with violet and green; 

 they have also rather more flowers on each 

 stem than the scillas. Miss Jekyll also gave 

 me last autumn several other new good 

 things, all of which are, I am happy to say, 

 thriving ; amongst others a dwarf Hemerocalis 

 or day-lily, and a white sea-holly, Erynginm 

 giganteum. I am afraid my Iris Susiana will 

 not bloom this year, as it was impossible to 



