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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, Berberis thunbergi, 

 Clematises of sorts, Clerodendron, Colutea, Cotoneaster, 

 Cydonia japonica, Dog-wood, Eccremocarpus scaber, 

 Escallonia euonymus (both European and latifolius), 



