A GARDEN DIARY 51 
has to be watched over like hid treasure, it 
may be doubted whether the amount that we 
can afford to have trickling through it in 
summer will suffice to hinder the water in it 
from becoming yellow, brown, or green. That 
is a point however which remains for future 
discovery. Our main preoccupation at present 
rests with the planting of the edges of our 
pool, especially with the clothing of the bank 
which, rising to the north of it, will absorb most 
of the midday sun, and will require therefore the 
most attention. 
In its present condition a good deal of that 
bank looks bare to desperation, yet I strongly 
suspect that summer will prove it to have the 
reverse fault of being crowded with a dense, 
and inextricably entangled mass of vegetation. 
Fortunately half its present inhabitants, being 
biennials, will depart after the first season, when, 
the prospect clearing, the permanent inhabitants 
will stand forth confest and visible. 
Omitting this temporary part of its furniture, 
I will jot the others down as they stand, which 
will enable us to see what we have, and also to 
form a better idea of what we still lack. 
First and foremost a kindly gift; two large 
clumps of Arundo donax, easily supreme any- 
where as pond-side decoration, the more so, as 
they quickly attain to their full size. No other 
plant of the reedy order, not even excepting 
