108 A Little Maryland Garden 
blooming that I had concluded that this year 
too would pass without flowers, so that it was 
a welcome surprise. The friend who gave it 
did not know the name of this variety, but 
it answers to the description of the iris 
_ pseudacorus of the catalogues, and has rich 
yellow flowers on long stems. The leaf 
is rather more slender than that of the 
germanica, and the whole plant taller. 
Altogether it is a very pleasing flower. The 
other stranger was a little spirea filipendula, 
which had heads of white flowers as soft as 
snow. 
All the vines had begun to grow fast, and 
were reaching out quite pathetically for 
support. As soon as they were furnished 
with cord they ran upward, some at the rate 
of several inches a day. The bittersweet 
and wistaria were most impatient, waiting 
for a lift, and the wild clematis had long 
sprays waving about in impotent endeavour 
to find something which would give them a 
helping hand. 
The seedling wall flowers and stocks had 
