IN A CHESHIRE GARDEN 



up in different corners of the garden, indeed 

 even in 1911, twenty-six years since its first 

 visit, I found a stray specimen. 



" Ranunculus arvensis," a weak-looking 

 buttercup with curious rough seed vessels. 



"Scandix Pecten-Veneris," an ordinary un- 

 attractive umbelliferous plant, but with extra- 

 ordinary long beaks to the fruit, which are 

 supposed to be like the teeth of a comb. 

 'Both of these are I believe common in other 

 parts of the country, but they are unusual 

 here. 



" Poa nemoralis," a stranger grass of 

 elegant growth, came one year in the rougher 

 part of a rock-border. It was made welcome 

 and kindly treated, but though allowed to 

 follow its own devices and though several 

 seedlings sprang up round it, they were all 

 gone in a year or two. A rarer grass still, 

 " Setaria glauca," once turned up in a 

 cucumber frame. 



In 1907, a seedling fig came up close to 

 the wall of the house. It has now (1912) 

 several shoots about eight feet long. The 

 same year another seedling fig appeared in 

 the kitchen garden, and that too I have trans- 

 planted to a warm corner of the house-wall, 

 where it has made a nice bush. 



For several years we have found seedling 

 tomatoes growing in the kitchen garden, and 

 in 1911 we gathered seven pounds of green 

 tomatoes from two plants to make into jam. 



