A Little Maryland Garden 139 
convenient for me to widen the Japan iris 
border, at the foot of the garden, rather 
than wait till fall. A bare space of three 
feet was not to be faced through the summer, 
so I picked up from other parts of the garden 
some stocks and marigolds, which had been 
crowded into undesirable corners, some of the 
ever-ready-and-willing feverfew, and a few 
little plants of Prince’s feather, that had been 
given me the week before. I set these out 
down the front of the border, and added all 
the potted plants I could muster (some as- 
paragus sprengert and plumosus, some carna- 
tions, and a pelargonium), and made a row 
which was visible to the naked eye even from 
the far end of the garden. Covering them 
with flower-pots during the day, and un- 
covering them at night, with judicious 
watering, seems to have set them fairly well 
in their places. 
This month usually sees some late efforts 
to fill bare spaces, sometimes the result of 
want of thought, and sometimes because my 
plans ‘‘gang agley.” This time it was the 
