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walks were marked out as I went into it with 

 hundreds of " Butter and Eggs " or, as they 

 are now called, Golden and Orange Phoenix 

 and scores upon scores of the double Queen 

 Anne's Jonquil. No new importations are 

 these, even from the best seedsmen's cata- 

 logues ; for they have grown on, " coming up 

 where they please," as their owners say, for the 

 last forty or fifty years. And so has that 

 beloved and capricious creature Anemone fulgens, 

 which overruns the borders and appears 

 among the Raspberries and Cabbages behind 

 them. 



A charming Tulip is Cottage Maid ; sturdy 

 and even in growth, it is one of the most 

 satisfactory of all for bedding purposes, with 

 its clear pink and white set in the grey green 

 leaves. At this moment it is in beauty in 

 the borders up to my gate, rising out of a 

 carpet of double white Arabis below the red- 

 brown leaves of the Tea Roses, among which 

 a pair of white-throats, just arrived from 

 Morocco, are busily searching for green-fly, 

 while a couple of Tom-tits flash hither and 



