1 6 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 



which make very good coffee for a short time ; but the 

 lining rubs off, and the tin gets black inside, which will 

 destroy the colour of the best coffee. At Goode's, in 

 Audley Street, or at the Atmospheric Churn Company, in 

 Bond Street, they will sell you any portion of these 

 percolators apart ; and the most terrible of breakers can 

 hardly smash everything at once. Many cooks refuse to 

 use Goode's excellent crockery fireproof stewpans, on 

 the plea that they break. But new ones cost no more 

 than the re-tinning of copper stewpans, which has to be 

 done every year. For all stews, and for the cooking of 

 vegetables and fruit, they are invaluable and, in the 

 case of fruit, indispensable. 



January 18th. One excellent way of arranging 

 flowers in most rooms is to have a table, a kind of altar, 

 especially dedicated to them. This does the flowers or 

 plants much more justice than dotting them about the 

 room. If, however, flowers or branches are arranged in 

 vases in the Japanese style, the more they are isolated in 

 prominent places that show them off, the better. 



I am now staying with a friend who has no stove, 

 only one greenhouse ; and her flower-table, standing in the 

 window, looks charming. At the back are two tall glass 

 vases with Pampas grass in them, feathery and white, 

 as we never can keep it in London ; a small Eucalyptus- 

 tree in a pot, cut back in summer and well shaped ; a 

 fine pot of Arums, just coming into flower ; a small fern 

 in front, and a bunch of paper-white Narcissus. These 

 last, I fear, must have been grown elsewhere, as they 

 could not be so early here without heat and very careful 

 growing-on. 



January %Qth. I came from London, to pass two 

 or three days in the country and look after my garden, 

 as usual. I make lists and decide on the seeds for 

 the year, and look to the mulching of certain plants. 



