SEPTEMBER 



these are the things that must be renewed year 

 by year. The dandelion will take the grass 

 under their protection if you will let it, and the 

 moth mullein, and common velvet mullein, will 

 make you glad if you spare their chance-sown 

 seeds, 



Americans of the generation after the next 

 will have forgotten that there was ever a need 

 for the naturalisation papers now carried by 

 the broom, which is making itself very much 

 at home in some favoured places. I wish we 

 could have the gorse too or whin and I 

 devoutly wish every American who has a bit 

 of wood to guard and hold for posterity would 

 set out some witch-hazel. If we were obliged 

 to send to Japan for this beautiful siren, how 

 eagerly we would offer it the highest seat in our 

 plantations ! And as for the mate to the 

 witch-hazel, the dear, common, hardy old yellow 

 chrysanthemum, it were worth while to have 

 no garden at all until its day, so well is it 

 worth waiting for. 



Blue gardens have been planned often, and 

 with great success. There are, it is true, no 

 blue flowering shrubs in our temperate climate, 

 but white ones answer excellently. Have 



