Ill 



LETTERS TO MARCO 



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say, done much injury to some of the more 

 delicate of my plants, but the hardier ones 

 are all right. The spring flowers are very 

 backward ; I have a few snowdrops, he- 

 paticas, and violets out. The winter aconites, 



Winter Aconites. 



the hardiest of all, do not seem to mind the 

 frost a bit, being frozen and drooping one 

 day, and reviving as if nothing had happened 

 immediately the weather is milder ; they are 

 a most fascinating little flower, with quaint 

 green frills round their necks, and come up 

 into the light backwards, about which method 



