MARCH 53 



the growths as high as I could reach all 

 round the trees, but the result is small ; 

 they soon come again as thick as ever. 



My favourite Garrya elliptica is in beauty 

 now, growing against the east wall of the 

 entrance court. A soft veil of catkins 

 enshrouds the tree from its top down- 

 wards ; each long catkin, just tinged with 

 a rosy bloom, is delicately outlined against 

 the dark round-leaved foliage. I can fancy 

 the Garrya standing alone, thus softly 

 veiled, upon the open sward how beauti- 

 ful it would be ! But if this ever happens 

 I do not know, for in our climate it seems 

 to need the support or shelter of a wall. 

 I have been going round the garden in the 

 bleak windy sunshine ; and I think our 

 flowers of March are nearly many enough 

 and varied enough to satisfy even our 

 immoderate desires. 



The straight walk in the kitchen garden 

 never looks fairer, with all its roses, than 

 now in the simple green and gold of 

 daffodil clumps all the way on both sides. 

 All sorts of daffodils are everywhere, from 

 the large heavy headed double ones, to 



