March 12. Tuesday.

Snow on mountains.
Isabel not well. Got Carmen to come & help. Cooked lunch myself. And for Rosa who came. Gelat came with Anita's father from Valldemossa to graft pears & apples. They did some & then it came on to rain so violently that they went away. Rosa tried on new sofa cushion. Did revision of 19 pp of Chapter 5 of Antigua and made out a date-list.
Wired and hung up cock-bowl 1 in spare room. It rained all day.
To bed early: asleep at 9 o'clock.
When Sebastian & I planted the tamarisk, which has now begun to sprout, I cut off two shoots and stuck them in the ground. They are now sprouting too.
Peach blossom, apricot blossom, and the wild peony 2 that John3 & I fetched from the Teix in 1930 now in the grotto after trying various bad places is just about to flower.

Editorial Notes

1given to me as present when the first Buffalo [University: SUNY] purchase was concluded K.G.
2 Paeonia Cambadesis[?] WG
3refers to John Aldridge, according to KG. eds