Too much attention cannot be paid to tying-up and training while the full growth of summer is on our garden; keeping plants in their places is as necessary as keeping people in theirs, and by means of small sticks put in amongst some of the low-growing plants, and pegging down the rambling shoots of others, while the taller plants are tied to proper supports in time, the beauty and order of the borders are greatly increased. In tying up bushy plants, use several stakes, if necessary, so as to avoid the sheaf-like look they acquire when tied up tightly to one stake, and do not wait till a stormy day comes ere securing the Canterbury bells, snapdragons, lychnises, and such like, to firm but slender stakes, or they will be either broken off or twisted out of all proper form. There is a very simple and speedy manner of pegging down verbenas or any slight stems, which I have found effectual:-Take narrow strips of tough bass, about five inches long, put them like loops over the ends of the branches, and push the ends under ground with your forefinger; this holds them down quite as effectually as the small forked sticks, which torment one by snapping off perpetually. Pieces of wire cut into proper lengths, and bent into a hook at one end, are also an effectual means of pegging down; but the bass-matting is easily procured, prepared, and applied. It is curious to mark how much more rapid the growth of climbing plants is when supported than when left to trail on the ground; no sooner does a tiny leaf of the Tropaeolum Canariense, or tricolor, get hold of a proper support, than the plant, apparently rendered secure as to the future, begins to grow rapidly, and soon covers with its graceful foliage the sprays or strings put for its guidance and assistance. The canary creeper will run up to a great height, and forms graceful festoons when trained up the outside of a window and carried along the top, or over a porch or rustic gateway. This pretty creeper seems to enjoy a wet season; it has grown luxuriantly this summer, (1862;) and it may be a useful hint to our readers to mention, that its seeds, when gathered green and dried in the sun or a warm room, ripen by degrees, and are quite good for sowing next spring. The first time I ever saw this plant was upwards of twenty years ago, when a friend gave me three seeds, sent from Madeira; these were sown in a flower-pot, covered with a hand-glass, and only planted out when summer was fairly established. I knew little about its growth, and was delighted to see the progress these made when some branching sprays were stuck in beside them; and when, by means of strings stretched horizontally, the plants grew up ten or twelve feet high, covered with their little yellow canary-bird-like flowers, we were never weary of admiring them. Both this species and the common nasturtium may be trained up a wall among ivy, where their gay blossoms contrast beautifully with the dark glossy leaves; indeed, in all parts of a garden this mingling of bright summer flowers with evergreens has a good effect. Roses especially shew well when backed by laurels; a row of these flowers, trained as pillar roses, makes a beautiful foreground in an avenue of evergreens "Every flower assuming A more than natural vividness of hue From unaffected contrast with the gloom Of sober cypress and the darker foil Of yew."

The mere mention of roses must be enough; for volumes, instead of pages, would require to be dedicated to them. Many of the new kinds flower on so late in autumn as almost to deserve their name of perpetual roses; but, after all, the old-fashioned common Chinese rose flowers earlier and lingers longer in bloom than any of the newer kinds, and no garden should be without plenty of these hardy, trustworthy friends. The first blow of these comes on early in June, before even the white roses; and though they are apt to be slighted during the fulness and variety of summer's flowers, yet when all our brighter blossoms have left us, the Chinese rose flowers on often till December; and pale and frail as its buds become, we value it then, and never feel the garden or drawing-room perfectly flowerless till the bitter frosts of winter have killed our Chinese roses. But I am anticipating, though, indeed, it is not easy to say what are summer and what are autumn flowers: for many, such as the dahlia, that used to rank among the latter, now mingle with roses and pinks; but if I allow them to trespass on my summer chapter, I fear I will have nothing left for autumnal records. So as Spring glided into Summer, let Autumn gradually take her turn, and, rich in fruits and flowers, "crown the year with goodness."