3n the Garden
It is an intermission in the concord of wire that has allowed a huge Puck rabbit to break through the netting sunk below the fences. He ruas discovered ambling up and down beneath the cloches where a row of
Cas is already three inches out of the ground. With the help of the orgi he was persuaded to seek fresh pastures before consuming the promise of our out-of-season dainties. But it is obvious that some Inspection will have to be made, inch by inch, along fences that have been standing without attention for eleven years. Though it is difficult to get a skinned rabbit in the country, and one has to pay 8s. 6d. for one in the village shop, only one small break in one's fences brings live rabbits in hordes, their little white scuts trembling with predatory excitement.
A firm that makes fertilisers and compost accelerators has kindly idinted out to me that quite a lot of gardeners, when building a concrete iontainer for their compost, go too far by lining the bottom, and covering in the heap. This of course impedes the processes of nature. The bottom ildist be left open so that excess moisture may drain away, and to allow, Pilhaps, for other mysterious, Steiner-engendered processes to work eir magic spell.
I was premature, two weeks ago, in deploring that my Iris Stylosa was flowering this year. Perhaps this was because I carelessly referred to 11 as a " lily " of masculine gender (" stylosus"), a mistake pointed out by that ever-watchful monitor whom one always numbers amongst one's fiends. The blossom is a fragile creature, shuddering into ruin almost
won as it unfolds. This is a characteristic of most irises. That may h. why they are so named ; creatures like the rainbow, come and gone, a Pomise, a mere glimpse, of sheer beauty. I hope to cultivate other early !i,,es next year, the Reticulata, the Danfordiae and the Tingitana.
have just heard, by telephone, that a glow-worm was seen last week b) a friend in her Downland garden above The Pilgrims' Way at Otford. The last I saw was in my own garden in mid-November. Three months
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