44 A GARDEN DIARY 
shoulders together. Sir Primitive is a remark- 
ably difficult person to escape from. His blood 
still courses unheeded through our own veins, 
and he is as much a part of ourselves as he is a 
part of the most sophisticated of our plants or 
our animals. We may imagine that we have 
left him behind us, and outgrown his teachings, 
and the very next day something will occur to 
show us that he is at our elbows all the time, 
as strong, as fresh, and as absolutely unaffected 
by any little modern innovations as he ever was. 
