. The happy garden . arming, melancholy things, butby losing or abusing happiness, they have lost thesense of continuance. It is unreasonable to seewinter behind spring, without seeing spring throughwinter. Jane grows glummer and glummer. Talkingof happiness is so depressing, just as there is acertain pitch of gloom which is an absolute tonic ! Theres a peony which is almost vulgar in itsinsistence on being recognised : thrusting its wayto the front and shouting down the lupins anddelphiniums. Truth to tell, he is red in the facebecause^^they are so tall. Mark the bees in the lily-trumpets and
. The happy garden . arming, melancholy things, butby losing or abusing happiness, they have lost thesense of continuance. It is unreasonable to seewinter behind spring, without seeing spring throughwinter. Jane grows glummer and glummer. Talkingof happiness is so depressing, just as there is acertain pitch of gloom which is an absolute tonic ! Theres a peony which is almost vulgar in itsinsistence on being recognised : thrusting its wayto the front and shouting down the lupins anddelphiniums. Truth to tell, he is red in the facebecause^^they are so tall. Mark the bees in the lily-trumpets and themonkshood, and the larkspurs. Each labourer, eachday, sips the honey of only one flower. The beeflits from larkspur to larkspur, never from larkspurto Canterbury bell, etc. Each cells honey must bepure, and perhaps each cell is labelled in a languagewhich we cannot read. I only know one thing certain of the bees, onething of my own knowledge, and that is that theydetest dogs, which makes me almost turn against S8. The carved stone urn on the lawn, bougKt in Venice Cherry Walk and Lawn them. And I would, but for M. Maeterlinck, whohas made me sentimental about them for everand ever! Arbutus and Rhus cotinoides make a fineshrubby background for the flowers, which growhere as thickly as they choose : violas, cranesbill,poppies, lupins, anchusa, lilies, delphiniums, etc. And so on, down to the dovecot, the bamboosand the rhododendrons. To see them rightly youmust walk back to the courtyard, looking neitherto the right-hand nor the left, for you must seeeverything in due order ; but you may observe theMadonna lilies growing by the long hall window,and the carved stone urn on the lawn, bought inVenice for one pound, though by the time it reachedEngland by the little quickness, it had cost threetimes that sum. (Jane, being of a later generation than MaryFleetwood of the sampler, is quick at figures, andin an astonishing short time has worked it out inlire !) Now, dear Jane, you se
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