of tliese friends — for I have devised a tiny, coiapact bouquer thai 

 tvuly is lovely. 



Picture a Trollius for the center — a circle of Forget-me-nots 

 ahont this — then lavender \'^iolas, pink 'Lithosperniuui, the starry 

 blossom of Sweet Woodruff, yellow Alyssum or Eanunculus alpes-^ 

 tris, the slender j)ink flowers of the dwarf Bleeding H^art and 

 so on. 



I forgot to say that under the Lilac bush is a seat; also one 

 high on a knoll beneath the Honeysuckle l)ush, so my friends cari 

 rest while I fashion them a J^pring nosegay. 



M}- letter is lengthening, and hard as it is to cease la^^ ^ 

 my garden, I must close. There is something strange about ov-e 

 feelings regardiiig tliis sort of a garden, fla 'e you not a'! 

 apologized to the visitors in your garden — tliere Were weeds, 

 were dying plants or some defect for which yen desired to ji 

 excuses. 



One never apologizes for rock plants; they are dear fneie 

 who can do no Avrong. 



Hoping that all who live on city lots, with discouraged loii,. 

 ings for a garden, may try the growing of Alpine plants, be. oii 

 devotees of rock gardening, and be happy ever after. 



MURIELL C. C. 



