Water-plants, such as the Sweet-smelling Rush, the flowering Rush Butomus umbellatus, the Water-lily, the Cape pond-weed Aponogeton, can all be grown in tanks if the plants are planted in baskets or hampers, not pots, and let down to the bottom. They give food for the fish, and keep them healthy; a tank also serves as a dip for swallows on the wing, and as a breeding-place for the beautiful blue dragon-fly.

To go back to the Dutch garden. I think at the corners of, or on each side of, the entrances there may be pots with plants in them, or balls of stone, or anything else in character with the rest of the stone or brick work, which should be formal and slightly constrained in design,, as I consider all brickwork in a garden close to a house ought to be. If planted as I described, no two such gardens would ever be the least alike; no law could bind them, and no wind destroy them.

One of the most perfect ways of laying out a long flat piece of ground I have ever seen was in a garden in Salisbury. One long, very long, broad grass path, right down the middle; wide herbaceous borders on each side, with low plants in front and tall ones behind; and at the back of these again, on each side, was the kitchen garden -Gooseberries, Currants, and Raspberries, and in between all the usual kitchen-garden vegetables; beyond that was a small cinder-path, and then a wall on either side, shutting off the neighbours. One wall faced nearly north and the other nearly south. The long garden, stretching from the house eastward and westward, was ended by the river; the tall spires of the cathedral towered behind the house. I have often thought that the same disposition of an oblong piece of ground would turn a depressing laurel-planted suburban garden into a thing of joy and beauty, even without the cathedral towers and the swift, clear, running river.

One of the most beautiful of late summer plants-I see my friends often fail with it-is the Lobelia cardinalis and L. fulgens, Queen Victoria. It is generally injured by kindness, sown in the early spring, drawn up in greenhouses, and planted out weak and straggling, when it does nothing. It is a North American bog-plant, where it lies frost-bound for months, so it is not cold that kills it; but it likes a long rest. I generally take up my old plants and keep them very dry in a box in a frame, planting them out at the end of March or early in April, before they begin to grow at all. It is letting them grow on in the boxes that brings the disease and rust. Every year we sow a small patch of both kinds out of doors in June or July, and these young plants survive the winter perfectly. Dear youth ! What a power it is to those that have it, even among plants ! In spring these plants are put where they are wanted to flower. If they are in a dry place, I am bound to say they require plenty of water when once they really begin to grow. They look very well in autumn growing out of a fine spreading base of Mrs. Simpkin

Pink, which roust be divided in the autumn, leaving spaces for the planting of the Lobelia in spring.

This is the time when the plants before named, which were put into the reserve garden in the spring-early Chrysanthemums, Phloxes, Michaelmas Daisies-are brought to fill up bare places in the border. If the borders have been planted as before advised, the colours must be arranged according to the several groups. Two plants of the Daisy tribe-one blue-violet with a yellow middle, called Erigeron spcciosus; the other a bright yellow, though some are paler than others, called Anthemis tinctoria-are invaluable in dry borders. They grow easily from seed, and are very amiable about being moved.