OCTOBER 233 



which unmake the mistakes of the past have 

 been decided upon. Already the bulb cata- 

 logues and the tree and shrub books, and the 

 hardy plantsmen's lists have been committed 

 to memory, and the processes of selection, 

 revision, addition and elimination have been 

 gone through time and again. Already the 

 orders have been placed, and the express 

 has brought those boxes and parcels whose 

 opening means pure joy. The polished brown 

 tulips ; the fat, glossy daffodils ; the rough- 

 coated hyacinths ; the slender Spanish iris ; 

 the little crocus buttons which set one guess- 

 ing as in the old game of head-or-tails 

 the twiggy shrublets and the rough - looking 

 perennials ah ! what equals these sights for 

 suggestion, and for the fair, unseen beauty 

 that hovers over them before the trained 

 vision ? Here is a true Shekinah, since 

 wherever is beauty there is God. 



The old borders must now be carefully 

 spaded. If old clumps are to be divided, or 

 transplanted, take them up tenderly, lift them 

 with care, and, behold, one is many ! Phlox 

 roots are shifted, primroses are cleft and 

 replanted, doubling and trebling the row that 



