Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation; an ornament, not a necessity, of life.

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.