Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden

brown. I am sure, even in small collections, picked and unpicked Chrysanthemums look far better if the colours are kept together in clumps, and not dotted about till the general effect becomes mud-colour, as English gardeners always arrange them, only considering their height or the size of their unnaturally disbudded blooms. They are, I admit, most beautiful and useful flowers. What should we do without them ? But owners of small places, and I think even large ones, should guard against too much time, attention, and room being given to them. For putting into vases, there is no doubt Chrysanthemums look better allowed to grow more naturally and not so disbudded. A huge Chrysanthemum that is nearly the size of a plate, though it may have won a prize at a local flower-show, looks almost vulgar when picked. Bunches of Chrysanthemums with their buds will go on blooming a long time in water, and make in a room a natural and beautiful decoration, instead of painfully reminding one of the correctness of the flower's paper imitations. A kind gardening friend living in Lancashire has written me out the following list of ornamental shrubs and flowering plants which, for one reason or another, look well in August, September, and October. I think, though I mention several of the plants elsewhere, it useful to give it in its entirety, as many are of opinion that in those three months it is necessary to be entirely dependent on bedded-out plants for colour and beauty. Trees for autumn leaves and berries : — Ash (Moun- tain), Cherry, Siberian Crab, Buckthorn (sea), Elder (golden), Filbert (purple), Hawthorn, Hornbeam, Maple. Creepers and shrubs for autumn : — Aristolochia sipho, Arbutus, Azara microphylla, Herberts thunbergi, Clematises of sorts, Clerodendron, Colutea, Cotoneaster, Cydoniajaponica, Dog- wood, Eccremocarpus scaber, Esca- lonia macrantha, Eiwnymus (both European and latifolius), OCTOBER 191 Genista, Heath, Hibiscus, Honeysuckle, Hydrangea paniculata, Hypericum, Indigofera, Jasmine, Laurus- tinus, Lavender, Leycesteria formosa, Mahonia, Olearia haasti, Pernettyas, Lithospermum, Pyracantha, Prunus pissardii, Rhus laciniata, Rosa rugosa, Eoses (autumn), Eosemary, Rubus (Brambles), Skimmia, Snowberry,Spor- tium junceum, Tamarisk, Virginia Creeper, Vines of sorts. Plants. — Achillea ptarmica flore pleno, Aconitum (Monkshood), Adonis autumnalis, Anemone japonica (most useful, three shades), Asters, Michaelmas Daisies of sorts, Ageratum, Antirrhinum, Armeria cc&spitosa (Sea Pink), Bergamot, Calendula, Marigold, Callistephus (China Aster), Campanulas of sorts, Campion (Eose), Cannes, Centaurea, Chrysanthemum, Colchicum (autumn Crocus), Convolvulus tricolor, Coreopsis lanceolata, Cucurbita (Gourd), Cuphea zimpani (good annual), Dahlias of sorts, Datura, Dianthuses of sorts, Desmodium, Diplopappus, Echinops, Erigeron, Eryngiums of sorts, Exogonium purga (Jalap plant), Fuchsia, Funkias of sorts, Gaillardia, Gaultheria, Geum coccineum, Gladioli of sorts, Gypsophila paniculata, Harpalium rigidum, Helenium, Helianthuses of sorts (Sunflowers), Heli- chrysum (Everlasting), Heliotrope, Hollyhock, Hyacin- thus candicans, Hypericums of sorts, Ipomaa (Convol- vulus), Lathyrus (Sweet Pea), Lengogium autumnale, Lilium tigrinum, Linaria, Linum, Lobelia cardinalis and fulgens, Lunaria (Honesty), Mathiola (Stocks of sorts), Oxalis, Pentstemons of sorts, Physalis alJcekengi (Winter Cherry), Phytolacca decandra, Plumbago carpentce, Polygonums of sorts, Poppies of sorts, P