MY GARDENING. II 
had more than a few feet of garden. The chances 
go, in fact, that it would have been carried through 
had I been certain of remaining in England for the 
time necessary. Meanwhile I constructed two 
big tanks of wood lined with sheet-zinc, and a 
small one to stand on legs. The experts were 
much amused. Neither fish nor plant, they said, 
could live in a zinc vessel. They proved to be 
right in the former case, but utterly wrong in the 
latter—which, you will observe, is their special 
domain. I grew all manner of hardy nympheza 
and aquatics for years, until my big tanks sprung 
a leak. Having learned by that time the A BC, 
at least, of ¢erra-firma gardening, I did not trouble 
to have them mended. On the contrary, making 
more holes, I filled the centre with Pampas grass 
and variegated Eulalias, set lady-grass and others 
round, and bordered the whole with lobelia— 
renewing, in fact, somewhat of the spring effect. 
Next year, however, I shall plant them with 
Anomatheca cruenta — quaintest of flowering 
grasses, ifa grass it must be called. This charm- 
ing species from South Africa is very little known ; 
readers who take the hint will be grateful to me. 
They will find it decidedly expensive bought by 
the plant, as growers prefer to sell. But, with a 
little pressing seed may be obtained, and it 
