Martinmas to Ladyday 
corners. A pretty enough idea, but, in the present hurried 
swing of the world’s daily life, will many folk find time to 
follow up this idea ? 
In a newer book, called “ The Daybook of Bethia Hard- 
acre,” Ella Fuller Maitland touches rather on the same 
thought, dwelling more especially on the odd and varied 
names of flowers. I have often thought how curious it is 
to see how sometimes they are just translations of one 
another : for instance, the pretty flower called in England 
Meadow-sweet ( Spircea Ulmaria) is here Queen of the 
Meadow; in Spain, Reyna del Prado; in Italy, Regina degli 
Prati; in Portugal, Rainha dos Prados; in France, Reine 
des Pres; and in Germany, Wiesen Konigin. Bridewort is 
another pretty name for it. Crane’s Bill is Bee de Grue in 
France. It is also curious to note how sometimes the old 
names keep green the memory of those who introduced 
them into English gardens : as Camellia, derived from 
Kamel, the German botanist; Dahlia, from Dahl, the 
Swede ; and Fuchsia, from Fuchs, the Bavarian herbalist. I 
like, too, the story of the fuchsia’s first arrival in England : 
the sailor bringing home a cutting from Chili to his wife. 
It is also very interesting to supply vacuums in one’s 
garden from one’s friends’ domains ; the sight afterwards of 
the flower brings pleasant memories. I found on arrival 
here that there was only one tuft of Lily of the Valley- 
May Lilly, or Lily Constancy, as is the delightful old name — 
so I begged and have now received a sturdy clump from 
a kindly neighbour, and another clump from Devonshire, 
from an old garden where I spent many pleasant hours. 
That garden is now, alas, no more ; it passed into the hands 
of a jerry-builder, who swept away the ancient lily bed to 
put a smart new greenhouse in its place to attract tenants 
to the old house. Neither were there Violets. These I 
also procured, also Hepaticas, sometimes called Herb 
Trinity, Liverwort, red, blue, and white, also called Poor 
Johnnies, without which no garden can be, I think, com- 
plete. Then from Devon some roots of a somewhat dwarf 
Daffodil, which brings back to me a brown trout-stream, and 
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