June 13. A beautiful instance of inscape sided on the slide. That is/ successive sidings* of one inscape, is seen in the behaviour of the flag flower from the shut bud to the full blowing: each term you can distinguish is beautiful in itself and of course if the whole 'behaviour' were gathered up and so stalled it would have a beauty of all the higher degree. 

--Gerard Manley Hopkins (1871)

* i.e. 'modifications'



A serendipitous find today:  In the yard (iris), in this book and on this date.