12 APRIL 



comes out something like a crocus, after a shower 

 of rain or two. That is on one side of the path. 



On this side is a collection of beds of yellow 

 marguerites, which exist green all through the 

 torrid year, taking no notice of anything, whether 

 they get too much water or none at all. In June 

 the flowers come out a fine yellow, and look very 

 gay for months. Opposite to them is a group of 

 sunflowers the small kind out now ; most useful 

 for indoors. 



But the most wonderful of all is a little wild 

 flower (Euellia) that I picked up from a rough 

 bank near the old pond. There was only one, but 

 it seeded itself, and became many the next year. 

 Last September I planted a long border of them 

 under the hanging orchids, and now they are all 

 out, a perfect vision of mauve petunia -like flowers 

 shading into a purple centre. They have flung 

 seeds to left of them and seeds to right of them, 

 which are all in full bloom too; and one even 

 treads on them in the pathways. Left alone for a 

 year, the place would be one mass of the beautiful 

 little things, for they grow in any crook or cranny, 

 without the slightest cultivation. I had no idea I 



