My Garden in Spring 



Snowflake, White Swan, and Purity hard to beat for white. 

 We have a good creamy white one with deep blue face- 

 marks on it called Beauty of Hedsor, that is very useful 

 for cutting, as like Snowflake it always has a good long 

 stalk. I like to pick plenty of them in May, as they are 

 so delightful in the house in their first freshness, and so 

 doing relieves the young plants and helps them to make 

 a better display later on. Jackanapes with red-brown 

 upper petals and bright yellow lower ones is one of my 

 great favourites, and we have a band of him at the back of 

 one of the Iris beds and on the opposite side of the path 

 to the yellow and white varieties of the Rose bed. But 

 come back again along the Eucalyptus Avenue (how grand 

 it sounds and how short and poor it is !). I want to show 

 you a very beautiful Comfrey that grows at the side of the 

 steps that form the end of this paved walk. It is the 

 Symphytum asperrimum, that such great things were ex- 

 pected of as a perpetual forage crop many years ago, but 

 though now turned out of the farm is worth a choice 

 position in the garden for the sake of its exquisite turquoise 

 blue flowers and rosy buds. It came to me from the 

 Cambridge Botanic Gardens, where I first fell in love with 

 it. It lasts in beauty for a very long period, and if cut 

 down is soon up again and full of fresh flowers. The 

 dark blue S. causasicum grows close behind it at this 

 corner, and beside a large patch of the blue grass, Elymus 

 glaucus, makes a very pretty picture. But then every way 

 one looks on such a fine afternoon in May makes a picture. 

 Even the square Georgian house as seen from a few steps 

 further on across the pond looks comfortable and homey 

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