SEPTEMBER 205 



not too close, to the Forsythia roots. Before 

 they are gone the daffodils are here, and 



" The slim narcissus takes the rain " 



in all the lovely variants of the type which 

 men have loved so long and so well. The 

 yellow tulips begin to glow like fire before 



" The shining daffodil dies." 



And while they are in their splendid prime 

 the Crown Imperials hang out their pearly 

 diadems. No one will care to cut it, but its 

 decorative value is very great if it is seen 

 marching along the brick wall, behind the 

 tulips, and well beyond the border of yel- 

 low primroses. The common cowslip, the 

 common primrose, the delicate hose-in- 

 hose, no one ever yet had a border of 

 them too long, nor ever will since, if one be 

 not the veriest of Peter Bells, a primrose is 

 not a primrose at all, but is, as saith the golden 

 sentence of True Thomas of Ecclefechan, "a 

 beautiful eye, looking out on us from the great 

 inner sea of beauty." 



A good shrub that is being forgotten in the 

 modern rush for new things is the Corchorus 

 or Kerria. Its foliage is exceedingly pretty, 



