Do you recognize the Green and in the middle the steeple, and
the gate with a lion couchant on either side? Oh yes, it is Kew! Well, Kew will do. So here we are at Kew, and I
will show you to-day (the second of March) under the plum tree, a grape
hyacinth, and a crocus, and a bud, too, on the almond tree; so that to walk
there is to be thinking of bulbs, hairy and red, thrust into the earth in October;
flowering now; and to be dreaming of more than can rightly be said, and to be
taking from its case a cigarette or cigar even, and to be flinging a cloak
under (as the rhyme requires) an oak, and there to sit, waiting the kingfisher,
which, it is said, was seen once to cross in the evening from bank to bank.
Orlando
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