Days and hours in a garden

If for a sixth reprint of DAYS AND HOURS IN A GARDEN a new Preface was deemed advisable, still more so, perhaps, should there be something new prefixed to the Seventh Edition, a...

Under the Holly hedge, facing south, a narrow border has been made ready to receive a quantity of white Iris roots. The Holly hedge, planted for shelter and for pleasure, along...

_January 5, 1883._--A large body of the army of the small ones of the earth has attacked us, and it is no fault of theirs if we are not despoiled of the best of our spring delig...

According to custom, I was rather on the look-out for treasures when the old hedge was dug up, but nothing appeared excepting a huge yellow bone and a gigantic root of White Bri...

The all too brief delight of hearing the birds sing in the evening is not at its best; about seven they begin. The other day, at 6.30, scarce a note was heard through all the ga...

In our garden the birds have divided the kingdom amongst them, and in this half is the portion that fell to the reed sparrow. He keeps the Silver Birch alive with his busy note....

And now, at this very time, has come a new burst of Irises--the narrow-leaved kinds. Not the real Spanish Irises; their time is not yet. We have a few old plants whose flowers a...

The early morning is always the time of all others for the garden, while the flowers are refreshed with the dew and darkness and cool of night, and are rejoicing yet in the ligh...