io IN A CHESHIRE GARDEN 



In 1886, in an out-of-the-way path among 

 trees, an orchid, " Epipactis latifolia," came 

 up in the very middle. I took care that it 

 was not disturbed, and found it again in 

 exactly the same place four years later, no 

 sign of it having been seen in the interval. 

 Never before, or since, have I found a plant 

 of that or any other orchis growing wild in 

 the garden. 



One year (1887) in a border nearly full of 

 rhododendrons, close to the front door, a 

 curious looking thing made its way above the 

 ground, which, at first sight might have been 

 put down as something between a hyacinth 

 and a lily-of-the-valley, but was said to be 

 " Muscari comosum." I had never planted 

 it and during the fifteen years that I had been 

 here had never seen anything like it. I very 

 carefully marked the spot when it died down, 

 but from that time to this (1911) during all 

 the 24 years that have passed it has never 

 shown itself again. 



