2 1 8 A GA RDEN OF PL EA SURE 



from Holland they turned out to be mostly 

 another sort, with narrow leaves and 

 smaller flowers. Nevertheless they are 

 very charming with their varieties of pure 

 white and lilac and purple, and some of the 

 white have broad petals, although their 

 leaves are narrow. The place is too dry 

 for them to succeed perfectly : the Koemp- 

 feri should grow close to the water, by a 

 lake or a stream. I have laboured hard 

 for them, however, collecting stones and 

 wheeling them (in an old perambu- 

 lator) and planting them about the roots 

 to keep whatever moisture there may 

 be. 



In stones, I have the greatest faith. I 

 like to arrange them with my own hands, 

 round the roots I love the most. It may 

 be fancy, but yet a pleasant fancy dashed 

 with truth, that many a lovely favourite 

 has been thus saved from withering death. 

 The moss-roses love these stones ! So 

 does a curious red-brown iris which made no 

 flowers for three years after being trans- 

 planted from its own old home in the West. 

 Yet there are several plants who refuse to 



