The plants moved from the reserve garden in July have done very well. The Michaelmas Daisies are unusually good. There are a great many dwarf kinds, very suitable for small gardens. Little shapely trees covered with starry white or lilac flowers are, I suppose, to be got anywhere now; mine came from my neighbour, Mr. Barr, who has a grand collection. I can only repeat what I said before, how easily these plants can be divided and replanted in spring, and in large and roomy places a Michaelmas Daisy garden can be made for the late months. Boltonia corymbosa is a charming plant, more restrained than the Michaelmas Daisy, and better suited to small gardens. It is very pretty picked, but its fault is that it comes in rather early.

The wet weather has suited one of the handsomest of autumn flowers, the tall white Pyre thrum. Salvias do well here, but they like it dry and hot, and are not so good as usual this year, though flowering well now. S. patens, the dark-blue, and S. splendens, the beautiful scarlet one, are the two that no one should be without. They grow most easily from cuttings every year, though we keep the tuberous roots of S. patens, as we do Dahlias, from year to year. There are other Salvias quite worth growing, but none I know so good as these two. Things are keeping on well in the kitchen garden with the wet and the absence of frost. We have still some excellent late-sown French Beans. As a rule gardeners stint the slightly uncertain crop of French Beans by not sowing them in succession, depending for the kitchen supply on the Scarlet Runners, which are not nearly so delicate, and have not half the flavour of the true French Beans. Late Peas completely beat us. We have never had them but once; they damp off. This must be, I should think, from the western aspect of the garden. I will try sowing them the first week in June next year in an open field we have, exposed to the full sun and wind, to see if in that position they will do better.