In the Garden The first flowers of the year have
gone. Tulips suddenly take the place of snowdrops, daffodils of the yellow crocuses. Every. rear Tulip kaufmaniana is an unfailing joy: large, delicate water-likes of moon-yellow. The variety Brilliant is earlier, soft and fiery in en March, a sort of smouldering carmine. In February I gave up the Iris reticulata as a bad job ; only a few steely spears remaii:ed- March they crowded everywhere in flaming purple sheaves, so they were countless. Anemone blanda came with them: ,0 mans delicate pink and blue and mauve catherine-wheels flat against W' earth in the midday-sun. Rose-brown shoots of lilies were -ud,:etil seen to be thick among the daffodils ; peaches broke pink bud!' chionodoxa and primula made bright sprinklings of blue anti PuIP'e everywhere, and a small tyrant of three years old, 'rode a triumP911 tricycle through treasured areas of purple crocus, making Hs can demonstration of the arrival of spring. H. E. 1-;T
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