My Garden in Spring 



narrow lanceolate leaves from its childhood instead of the 

 ample ovate leaves of its brother seedlings, and constantly 

 correlated with these peculiarities is a curious dialysis of 

 the coralla similar to that seen in Campanula rotundifolia, 

 var. soldanalliflora, in which the bell is divided into five 

 narrow petals. I can always recognise a C. ladiflora that 

 inherits these oddities even when its first leaves appear 

 above the cotyledons, by their singularly narrow outline. 



Does my Lunatic Asylum appeal to you or appal you ? 

 I cannot tear some visitors away from it, and others who 

 do not care about the demented inmates are pleased with 

 the effect of the surroundings. When the Cherries and 

 Magnolias are out, and later when some standard Wistarias, 

 both sinensis and multijuga, in both lilac and white 

 varieties, and the white brachybotrys are in flower, I some- 

 times think it looks rather like a Japanese garden after all. 



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