JANUARY 



Summer suns have burned and failed ; 

 Autumn leaves have fallen in showers of 

 rustling gold, and winter -winds have swept 

 them away. Old trees are gone and new 

 trees have been planted, and everywhere 

 about the place reigns the inevitable law of 

 change. Old paths have been turned, 

 flower-beds here and there have been 

 turfed over, or new ones made. Yet now 

 things seem as if they ought always to 

 have been just so, and no other way at 

 all ! A new sundial, put together with 

 old carved stones and cement, now stands 

 upon the east lawn between the Sequoia 

 gigantea, and the Cedar. Already it wears 

 the look of having stood there for years. 

 There is a motto worked upon the steps 

 in Latin : it means, ' Light and shade in 

 turn, but Love always.' Round the top, 

 just below the dial, three lions walk with 

 solemn step from the sun-rising southward, 

 towards the east again. 



The chiefest change of all, is the creation 

 of Peach Corner. On the sunny side of a 

 very old brick wall which had probably 

 formed the boundary between the garden 



