Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden

Having given the above list, which is pretty well as large as any moderate-sized house would hold, I may as well add some further names to choose from, all of which are worth growing. Magnolia purpurea, M. stellata, and M. conspicua may all be grown against walls, or planted in sheltered situations as shrubs. Yellow Jasmine (not nudiflorum) in favourable situations does well. Cratcegus pyracantha Icelandi is the best of the Pyracanthuses — I believe, an invaluable shrub. If well pruned, it berries so brilliantly that where people only inhabit their houses in late autumn it is perhaps one of the most satisfactory plants that can be planted. I know one large red house which is covered all round up to a certain height with this plant, and the effect is very decorative, though to have a house entirely covered with only one species of plant is very dull from a gardener's point of view. Unless care- fully cut back and pruned early in the winter, it never flowers and berries well, but forms a dense mass of dark- green leaves. Cotoneasters, various, are useful much in the same way, and, I think, endure better very dry situations. Forsythia fortunei and other varieties. Pyrus japonica, now called Cydonia, various shades (this is one of the most precious and invaluable of the early flowering shrubs, and deserves the best places to be found on warm walls). Ceanothus grandiflorus (Gloire de Versailles) is the largest flowering variety, I believe, and a pretty pale-blue MARCH 45 colour, flowering in July, which is always valuable. C. cceruleus is a beautiful dark-blue colour; it flowers earlier, and is not so hardy. Cercis, or common Judas Tree, and Buddleia globosa both look well on walls where there is room. Vitis coignetice is a very handsome rapid grower, and covers quickly a barn, a roof, or a dead tree. The claret-coloured Vine, with its little bunches of black grapes, is very effective. The grapes are used in France and Germany for darkening the colour of wine. Abelia rupestris, a lovely little, rather tender shrub, would grow admirably against low greenhouse walls. Why are such spots generally left quite empty by gardeners in large places? The single white McCartney Rose would do well in a similar situation, and for those who are in the country in June it is well worth a place. Aimee Vibert, Gloire des Bosemaines, and Fallenberg are delightful Eoses for house or pergola. Sweet Verbena (A loysia citriodora) — Why, oh ! why, is this little shrub, which everyone is so fond of, grown so little out of doors ? Practically, with a little care, its roots are quite hardy, as in the very severe winter of two years ago only one of mine, out of five or six plants, was killed. It requires nothing but planting out late in May, watering, and not picking at first, as the growth of the shoots makes the roots grow. It may be picked in early autumn as much as you like, but the summer growth should not be cut down to the ground till the following spring. It is the easiest plant possible to strike in spring, and there should be plants of it planted in greenhouses, others grown in pots, and brought on in stoves in spring ; but nearly all gardeners are satisfied with one little plant of it in a pot, unless they are urged to increase it. Mock Orange (Philadelphus grandiflorus) looks very well against a warm wall in July, but should not be nailed in too tight.