In my Garden As Buddleia Veitchiana loses its honeyed flowers
B. Meyerensis opens its quaint but equally sweet tasselled buttons, and to these Peacock, Tortoiseshell and not least Comma butterflies have transferred their attentions. Among odd coincidences, a letter from Devon reported the appearance of humming bird hawk moths on pink Valerian at the same moment as these immigrants appeared also in Hertfordshire on the same flower. One of the attractions of Valerian—of which the red variety is the best—is that-it is almost as ineradicable as a weed. There is no better butterfly lure ; and the attraction of butterflies is one part of the happy gardener's duty. In the vegetable garden one gardener of my acquaintance is now sowing carrots which he expects to survive the winter and fill a spring gap. Cloches, of course, are encouraging many
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