Stray Leaves from a Border Garden 
The Scotch say Claver, and the Anglo-Saxon said Clafer. 
There were big gold-eyed Daisies, or Horse-gowans,as Ox-eye 
Daisies are called here. The Shetland name for a Daisy is 
Cockiloorie, supposed to be from the old Swedish words 
koka , the greensward, and lura , hid, what is hidden during 
the winter in the earth, or, as Sir David Lindsay charmingly 
sings : 
Fled from the frost, the tender flowers I saw 
Under Dame Nature’s mantle lurking law. 
We got Forget-me-not, too, on the bank, and Bur Reeds with 
bunches of beautiful green fruit like tiny Horse-chestnuts. 
There was a perfect hedge of Meadowsweet along the 
waterside under the cliff, and abundance of Yellow-flags — 
Gold Sword-lilies, as the Germans so graphically call them. 
We saw, however, no birds or beasts, except one tiny dead 
rabbit. 
July 19. — Thunder and heavy rain. The flowers are all 
rather the worse. The Pinks are coming out at last. I 
pulled a small log of wood out of a very damp corner, where 
it had been laying buried in damp leaves, and on part of its 
bark coming off, a beautiful pattern of white mildew was 
revealed, looking exactly like white seaweed spread on the 
brown trunk. 
July 20. — I saw some lovely white Turncap Lilies ( Mar - 
tagon alburn) in a friend’s garden to-day, also some herba- 
ceous Clematis in a small bush, very effective. There were 
some old bushes of Alstromeria or Peruvian Lilies, bright 
orange and yellow — Herb Lilies they call them here. Also a 
very pretty bed of Nemisia, an old-fashioned flower one 
does not often see now. 
July 23. — Continual showers these last few days. The 
flowers are heavy with raindrops. There are some splendid 
upstanding spires of Giant CEnothera or Evening Primrose. 
How lovely they must look in their native Patagonian 
wilds in abundance ! The pink Pentstemon border by the 
Lady’s Bower is beautiful. The China Asters are in bud ; 
I do not like to see them, they seem like Heralds of Autumn. 
The Germans call them Death-flowers. I have heard that 
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