184 A GARDEN DIARY 
—cunning workers and craftsmen—had set up 
any gins or traps in the wilderness; before the 
first monk or abbot had arranged ingeniously 
devised weirs, wherein the salmon—seemingly 
by miracle—rang a bell to announce its own 
arrival; before any of these things had been 
done, or thought of, little Utricularia minor and 
little Utricularia intermedia had set up their 
own primitive green eel-traps in the yet un- 
visited wastes of Iar-Connaught. 
