Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden

re-potted in the autumn. They are hardy, and will grow out of doors, but the blooms do not then reach to such perfection. There is a large box filled with the last of the Neapolitan Violets and a pan of Saxifraga wallacei, one of the most effective of the smaller Saxifrages. I never succeeded with it out of doors till I divided it in June, planting it in the shade, and in October I replaced it in the sunny bed for spring flowering. In that way it can be increased to any amount. This treatment I pursue with many plants : — Heuchera sanguined, one of the most precious of the Canadian flowers, and the best worth cultivating, especially in small gardens. The pretty Saxifraga granulata flore pleno disappeared year after year till treated more or less in this way. In June, when the leaves die down, the little bulblets are taken up and planted in groups in a shady place. They make their leaves in October, when it is easy to move them back into the border or onto the rockery where they are to flower. The double flower is of a very pure white, and its long stalk adapts it well for glass vases and table decoration. The large sweet-smelling double white Rocket, which I mentioned before as growing so well in the damp Hertfordshire garden, defeated me altogether for some years ; it made a fair growth of leaves, but never flowered. Now it succeeds perfectly. After flowering, we break it up, put it into a shady place, and replant it in the borders in the autumn. All this sounds very trouble- some, but it is really not so at all, as it is so quickly done. The only trouble is remembering when to do the things ; but that soon comes with practice, and the time of year always recalls what was done the year before to the true gardener. Everybody recognises this treatment as necessary for violets, double and single — which, indeed, do not flower well without it. The invaluable Imanto- phyllums, which began to flower in the warm greenhouse 74 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN in January, are doing so still : so are the Arums, which people insist on calling 'Lilies.' They are not lilies at all, but belong to the same family as the ' Lords and Ladies ' and ' Cuckoo Pint ' of our hedges. The large greenhouse Arums come from the Cape, where they are an absolute weed, appearing wherever the ground is disturbed or turned up. They are there called Pig Lilies, perhaps because they feed the pigs on the roots. In the damp places, I am told, they are magnificent, growing finer and larger than they ever do in pots in England ; at the same time, when they come up in dry and heathy places, they are perfect miniature plants with delicate little flowers like shells. Arums in pots require lots of water while growing and flowering, and are better for a saucer to hold it. A beautiful crimson Amaryllis, which I brought back from Guernsey some years ago, is in flower. It has never flowered before ; but we understand so much better than we did the drying and ripening in the sun of all the Cape bulbs, and this makes the whole difference to their flowering.