My Garden in Spring 



at present has a place in the ditch, but I lose it here after 

 flowering, but mean to try it up in the fish hatchery, where, 

 dry above and wet below, it may behave as luckier folk 

 have found it to do, and grow into a clump. 



The lovely hybrid " Unique Improved " did well at first, 

 and allowed me to split it up into a nice colony, then some- 

 thing offended it, and every crown yellowed and decayed, 

 leaving nothing but an orphaned seedling which flowered 

 this year and was little more than a living image of its 

 grandpa, Cockburniana. 



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