1 66 A GARDEN DIARY 



APRIL 1 1, 1900 



ONE advantage we have secured out of our 

 dry April. Ever since our arrival we 

 have wanted an additional water-stand for the 

 garden, but various causes, chiefly I think 

 dislike to making any more inroads upon the 

 bracken, have hindered us from setting one 

 up. When it comes to dragging watering-pots 

 several hundred yards while the year is still only 

 three months old, imagination pictures what 

 fatigues will be ours in July and August. A 

 new stand accordingly has been established, and 

 an ugly scar the laying of it has made through 

 the copse. Now however that part of the busi- 

 ness is done ; the grass sods, carefully laid on 

 one side, are back in their places again, and one 

 must only hope that the bracken, safely curled 

 away underground, knows little or nothing about 

 the transaction. 



As its practical outcome we have, rising out 

 of the ground, a short stiff pipe of lead, which 

 has been more or less dexterously hidden away 



