;8 MAY 



The summer borders are quite a fortnight later 

 than they should be. There is very little show at 

 present nothing, in fact, beyond the parrot tulips 

 and one or two herbaceous things such as the rosy 

 pyrethrums, geum miniatum^ which seems to be 

 earlier than G. chiloense, and the pretty little 



THE JERRY-BUILDER 



carpet plant which we call Bouncing Bet, though 

 properly speaking it is saponaria ocymoides. Many 

 things are ready to burst into flower, but are coy 

 through persistent night frosts. 



The first sweet peas are in bloom to-day a fort- 

 night before their time by a happy accident. In the 

 early winter we found that a goodly number of seeds 



