February  27,  1902. 
JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
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BARR’S  NEW  DWARF  EARLY  MARROWFAT  PEA. 
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round  peas,  and  bearing  a  profusion  of  large  well-filled 
pods,  Containing  8  to  10  pea.s  of  fine  rich  flavour;  sturdy 
'branching  habit,  height  lOin.  to  12iu.  Per  pint  3/6. 
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GIANT  SWEET  PEAS. 
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THURSDAY,  FEBRUARY  27,  1902. 
A  February  Day  in  the  Garden. 
“Thou  lingerest.  Spring  !  still  wintry  is  the  s#ene.” 
Southey. 
(HEN  winter  is  distant  we  look 
upon  it  with  kindlier  eye  than 
when  it  is  actually  upon  us,  and 
we  must  part  from  our  flowers 
for  a  time,  as  they  are  hidden 
’neath  Nature’s  coverlet.  But  we 
are,  one  thinks,  less  the  admirers 
of  the  flowerless  time  when  it  comes 
late  upon  us,  just  when  we  were  hoping 
for  the  crowds  of  charming  beauties  which 
tell  of  the  advent  of  warmer  and  brighter 
days.  It  often  arrives  so  suddenly,  too,  just 
when  we  had  hoped  that  the  snow  would 
keep  away  and  the  frost  o’  nights  would  have 
its  keenness  mitigated.  A  few  days  ago  I 
was  preparing  for  the  wished-for  spring,  by 
going  over  the  borders  and  making  them  a 
little  more  in  keeping  with  the  graces  of  the 
early  flowers.  The  last  of  these  days  was 
bright,  and  in  a  sunny  i>ook  the  earliest 
flowers  of  Crocus  biflorus  were  persuaded  by 
the  bright  sun  to  open  for  the  first  time  of 
the  season,  while  other  clumps  of  earlier 
species  were  all  aglow  with  brightness  and 
beauty.  There  seemed  no  appearance  of  a 
change,  but  soon  after  nightfall  snow  came 
on,  and  when  morning  dawned  the  flowers 
were  deeply  covered  with  that  dazzling 
coverlet.  Fortunately,  the  uiost  of  the 
Crocuses  had  been  protected  by  glasses  over¬ 
head,  so  that  they  will  all  appear  once  mere, 
and  even  now,  where  the  snow  has  cleared 
away  in  the  sun,  there  are  a  good  many 
opening  cheerily  under  their  little  hand- 
lights. 
In  a  snug  corner  shines  a  golden  sheen 
from  the  flowers  of  Crocus  ancyrensis,  which 
escaped  in  an  astonishing  way.  My  little 
hand-lights  were  all  taken  up  by  others,  and 
it  seemed  so  safe  in  its  cosy  nook  that  one 
deemed  it  hardly  worth  while  to  protect  this 
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