My Garden in Spring 



trying to paint it, and though failing to express the brilliancy 

 of the reflected gold of the scattered sections of its cup on 

 the glistening silvery perianth, yet my dull daub brings back 

 some reminiscence of the real thing. I think it the very 

 best of all double Daffodils, as it has gained in contrasting 

 light and shade by its repeated sections of cups, and is not 

 a bit heavy, owing to the length and scattered position of 

 the perianth segments. 



Plenipo I like, but not nearly so much, as the perianth 

 is of too deep a yellow to make the contrast so pleasing. 



I could fill many pages with prattle of my newer, choicer 

 treasures, the ordinary garden furnishing of other folks' 

 beds most probably, so I will only say that they live in 

 what we call the Pergola garden, where some paved paths 

 divide it into rectangular beds, and oneof our later additions, 

 the New Wall, cuts off the east wind, so that there is found 

 a sheltered home for good little daffs, and one can get at 

 them easily to admire their beauty or fuss over their needs. 

 Lemon Queen, White Queen, Solfatare, Lord Kitchener, 

 Great Warley, Outpost, Incognita, and May Moon are some 

 of this pampered company, and the end of one bed is filled 

 with a double row of a fine giant Leedsii of Dutch origin, 

 named H. C. Bowles after my father. At first we thought 

 it rather shy flowering, and I was a little disappointed at 

 its likeness to an enlarged White Queen, only with a less 

 symmetrical base to the cup. But it has certainly improved 

 since it became a British subject, and has shown a remark- 

 able vigour of growth and freedom of flowering, and has 

 a great deal of substance in it, so that as a cut bloom it 

 lasts a long time, and the pale sulphur of its cup gradually 

 tones down with age to a most delicate ivory white. White 

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