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gracefully downward like a waterfall of snowy ._flowers, Stock was in full bloom. Pansies were out.in masses. Both the English and Kashmir lilac were in blossom, and the columbines were in perfection. I had had out from Barr & Sons a number of varieties, and the success was remark- able. The Kashmir soil and climate seem to suit columbines, and varieties from every part of the world, deep purple, light mauve, white, mauve and white, pink and red of many different graceful forms, came up luxuriantly. They were one of the successes which gladden an amateur gardener’s heart,

The maximum in the shade was 60°, in the sun 122°, and the minimum 48°,

The first strawberries ripened a week later. The first horse-chestnuts came into blossom on May, 10th, and on that date the single pink rose, sinica anemone, on the ‘trellis at the end of the garden, was in full bloom and of wondrous beauty; a summer-house covered with Fortune’s yellow was a dream of golden loveliness; I picked the first bloom of some English roses which a kind friend had sent out, and which had been planted in a special rose garden I had made for them— William Shean, Mrs. Ed. Mauley, Mrs. W. J. Grant, and