22 Making a Bulb Garden 
but do not expect from these the earliest 
enjoyment after winter’s back is turned. 
It is to the real garden that we must look 
for that — and in the real garden that we 
may walk, even in March, without suffer- 
ing the mad impatience that comes of 
waiting for spring outside this garden’s 
neat preparedness. 
As for the fancy beds in which tulips 
and hyacinths commonly find themselves 
- — poor things! — what is there to say for 
these? Have they a place anywhere in 
the world? X suppose we must admit that 
they have, just one place — but certainly 
only that one. How I do wish they 
might be confined to these limits ; to 
reservations, as it were. Public squares 
are perhaps improved by beds; I have 
never been able to make up my mind posi- 
tively that they are; yet, on the other 
hand, I have never felt certain that they 
are not. Such places — such squares in 
parks, and the ground at the base of 
statues and monuments, as well as ceme- 
