i2 4 A WHITE-PAPER GARDEN 



garden where the rich loam had been light- 

 ened by much sand, and where the cold north 

 and north-east winds are fended off by a 

 high brick wall. Creepers of all kinds grow 

 over these ancient barriers, and there had 

 been some attempts to train fruit-trees against 

 the comfortable background. I do not think 

 much was gained in the way of finer fruits 

 by this treatment, but the bees found their 

 way early into the garden for the summoning 

 peach blows ; and to have early bees is a 

 great thing. There is always some planting 

 of the early flowering bulbs, some daisies grow 

 there, and primroses, and there are always a 

 great many things with good smelling leaves, 

 but the gala days begin when the Madonna 

 lilies begin to bud. Every third August the 

 old plants are lifted, divided and replanted in 

 soil that has been carefully prepared with 

 much wood ashes ; each has a handful of 

 clean sand about it, and so the two long rows 

 which are all that the garden master allows 

 of this variety is always in the best possible 

 condition for flowering. To keep up the 

 stock he has a little school in one corner of 

 the garden, in which young roots are set to 



