THE WELL-CONSIDERED GARDEN 



are now weakening under continuous use. In 

 these sets or nests there are three baskets — or 

 really one might call them willow trays with 

 handles — and better gathering baskets for flowers 

 I never hope to find. They carry the name of 

 Miss Jekyll's place and were designed by her. 

 The sweet-pea basket shown is somewhat on the 

 order of the Munstead basket, but the handle is 

 higher and the pointed steel rod, by means of 

 which the whole may stand upright in the ground, 

 is the addition which makes this of peculiar use. 

 A sweet-pea basket it is called, and I can testify 

 heartily to its garden value. Two bowl-shaped 

 baskets of split bamboo have been my compan- 

 ions in the garden for many years, light, capacious, 

 convenient, and very beautiful to send about the 

 neighborhood filled with flowers. Especially do I 

 recall their lovely appearance when holding Clarhia 

 of that most charming type known as Sutton's 

 Salmon Queen. These bamboo bowls are Japa- 

 nese. From Japan, too, come the small brown 

 baskets (of which we have no picture) with arching 

 handles entirely made of twigs woven roughly to- 

 gether; little boat-shaped things these, and when 

 filled in April with crocus, scilla, and Iris reticu- 

 lata, they are like entrancing bits of woodland 



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