Stray Leaves from a Border Garden 
kitchen-garden borders to-day. I found four coloured 
primroses, three yellow ones, and two sprays of the lovely 
yellow-stars of the Jasmine nudijlorum , which somehow 
does not seem to flourish on my wall with western aspect. 
In some places it is so lovely; I remember it a perfect 
“ wig ” over an old doorway in a Yorkshire garden. 
Finally, I visited the clumps of Winter Aconite, and found 
six little golden befrilled flowers. I think they look like 
tiny flower fays with their green ruffs. They are pretty, 
too, in seed. I do not like their name of Wolfsbane, it 
sounds such a wicked name for such little Dears. I also 
found a sprig of Arabis. In Sussex it is called Snow in 
Summer and Snow-on-the-Mountain. Mine grows in 
amicable union with a cushion of Wild Strawberry. They 
look so pretty together ! Then I paid my usual visit to the 
greenhouse. It is very small, but invaluable as a tonic 
when one’s spirits are depressed by long continuance of 
cold and bare flower-borders. It is so delicious to come 
in to it on a bitter cold day, such as we had last week, and 
look at each pot, from the magenta-flowered Cactus to the 
dear little fly-catching Dionea muscipula , a sort of glorified 
sun-dew. I love scented Geraniums too, the pepperminted 
scented, oakleaf apple, and all the tribe, even the now 
despised Pelargoniums, beloved of the evil greenfly. But 
how well these last do grow sometimes in cottage windows ; 
they make me quite envious. The receipt, as given by an 
old cottager, “Never open the window on them, and put 
them out when it rains.” 
I find the dear little Hoop-petticoat Daffodils ( Bulho - 
codium) are easily grown in the greenhouse, and last a long 
time in flower in my colder sitting-room. They always 
remind me of the place where I saw them first, wild in a 
damp field near Biarritz, looking so pretty, like golden dots 
in among the green herbage. The tiny Rush Daffodil 
Jonquil is also very nice in pots for the house ; Tulips and 
Roman Hyacinths, of course, no one need be without. 
The “ Angels’ Tears ” Daffodil is also quite possible. I 
grow Sarracenias, or Side Saddle flowers — Huntsman’s Horn 
98 
