of H (0attien 



It is a long time to wait through all the win- 

 ter months to realize the hopes and anxieties 

 which have been planted in the soil in the au- 

 tumn. If one's solicitude is equal in volume upon 

 each separate object within its purview, as I 

 suppose it must more or less be, to what dimen- 

 sions must not the aggregate attain when the 

 units are impartially dealt out in thousands? 



In the beds under the windows on the south 

 and west of the house hundreds of tulips and 

 hyacinths have been inserted. The tulips are 

 all mixed, as they look much brighter and gayer 

 than when sorted in colors. In the herbaceous 

 borders, most of them backed or centered by 

 shrubs, chiefly evergreen, are irises, Spanish, 

 German, English, Japanese, and reticulata, anem- 

 ones of various descriptions, daffodils, narcissi, 

 ixias, foxgloves, lilies, campanulas, montbretias, 

 ranunculi, delphiniums, and many other plants 

 and bulbs. The borders round the lawns are 

 all lined with mixed crocuses, and quantities of 

 these, with snowflakes, daffodils, snowdrops, and 

 scillas, have been put in the grass wherever 

 there are untrodden corners, and around trees. 



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