166 A GARDEN DIARY 
APRIL II, 1900 
Cy advantage we have secured out of our 
dry April. Ever since our arrival we 
have wanted an additional water-stand for the 
garden, but various causes, chiefly I think 
dislike to making any more inroads upon the 
bracken, have hindered us from setting one 
up. When it comes to dragging watering-pots 
several hundred yards while the year is still only 
three months old, imagination pictures what 
fatigues will be ours in July and August. A 
new stand accordingly has been established, and 
an ugly scar the laying of it has made through 
the copse. Now however that part of the busi- 
ness is done; the grass sods, carefully laid on 
one side, are back in their places again, and one 
must only hope that the bracken, safely curled 
away underground, knows little or nothing about 
the transaction. 
As its practical outcome we have, rising out 
of the ground, a short stiff pipe of lead, which 
has been more or less dexterously hidden away 
