And hepaticas, red, blue, and white." "What are hepaticas like ?" I asked.
"Let me show you," said Mr.Andrewes, crossing the garden.

"Look here! there are the pretty little things.

I have seen them growing wild in Canada--single ones, that is.

The leaves are of a dull green, and when they fade, the whole plant is hardly to be distinguished from Mother Earth--at least, not by a gardener's eye.

If you will promise me not to let the gardener meddle with them, unless you are there to look after him, I will give you plants for your beds and borders, my boy." "Oh, thank you," I said; "I like gardening very much.