1 84 A GARDEN DIARY 



cunning workers and craftsmen had set up 

 any gins or traps in the wilderness ; before the 

 first monk or abbot had arranged ingeniously 

 devised weirs, wherein the salmon seemingly 

 by miracle rang a bell to announce its own 

 arrival ; before any of these things had been 

 done, or thought of, little Utricularia minor and 

 little Utricularia intermedia had set up their 

 own primitive green eel -traps in the yet un- 

 visited wastes of lar-Connaught. 



