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cast cernuous, etc., etc. Little pumilis is 

 going off, after taking part in the soft 

 colour-chord touched by Glory of the 

 snow (Chionodoxia) blue Hepatica and 

 Sysirinchium. 



On the grass in the orchard, are 

 wild Lent lilies, transplanted hither 

 from the sweet wild meadows of Derby- 

 shire. They are modest little things, 

 most palely delicate in colour, their bent 

 heads all turned one way, south-east. 

 There is something peculiarly neat and 

 pretty in the half-opened bud, the long 

 tube being fu/Ied round the edge as if drawn 

 in by a thread a bit of Dame Nature's 

 neatest needlework ! We are trying these 

 wild ones also in a garden border, but 

 I do not expect them ever to double.* 

 In the broad new border of the Boccage 

 and in the Fantaisie, heavily scented 

 jonquils flourish in perfect peace, their 

 deep content plainly visible, as it always is 

 with some flowers. ' Blue Roses ' would 



* In 1895, several years after this was written, the 

 Lent lilies from Derbyshire, planted in the border, 

 still remain single. E. V. B. 



