In the Garden
In a cubic yard of garden, so to say, were flowering freely -in the first week of February Cydonia Japonica and Viburnum Fragrans with a carpet of lungwort, mixed up with snowdrops and aconite. Lungwort is humble, but satisfactory, and can be had in three colours, pink, blue and white. The things it cannot endure are drought and heat, of which there has been small danger! A hedge, more or less new to me, consists of holm-oak, and it is well worth growing in this form, especially near the sea, though of course it does not grow as rapidly or as thickly as, say, Thuja. Why, I wonder, does nearly every gardener, neglecting the example of the field hedge, make hedges of one soft of plant only? Does one ever read of hedge plants that consent to a mutual
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