MY GARDEN 



shade. There are other varieties, sanguineum and 

 atrosanguineum with reddish flowers, but I have had 

 only the common sort. 



The Kerrias, both single and double, are at their 

 height about the first of May. I rather prefer the single 

 sort, but both are fine and golden in their bloom, which 

 thickly clothes the slender light-green branches. These 

 plants are said to prefer a damp soil, but I have not 

 found them fastidious, and save that they are sometimes 

 nipped by late spring frosts are most easily managed. 



Lovely indeed, just now, is Prunus triloba, fl. pl. 9 a 

 shrubby member of the plum family, which wreathes it- 

 self from top to bottom with gay pink rosettes resem- 

 bling but larger than those affected by the Flowering 

 Almond. We have two great bushes of Prunus triloba 

 in front of the garden-house porch with a fine clump of 

 gray-white Florentine Iris and some cherry-coloured 

 Tulips Pride of Haarlem as its neighbours. 



The gay little Flowering Almond, in both its pink and 

 its white manifestation, is in full regalia at this season. 

 Ours are growing against a group of Purple Leaved 

 Plums, in a border where Bleeding Hearts and pink and 

 white Cottage Tulips complete a delightful picture. 



Soon come Lilacs, " in snow-white innocence or purple 

 pride," and how glad we are to see them! Surely it is 

 the favourite shrub. Here we have fine old bushes, tall 

 enough to shake their scented plumes into the second- 

 story windows. And all about the countryside are 



