round the root, taken up and replanted, as Miss 

 Jekyll seems to indicate. 



The goldenrod has been very showy in the gar- 

 den and is a very handsome and graceful flower, 

 most useful for cutting. 



The azalea foliage is resplendent and many 

 other leaves and berries betray the rapid advance 

 of autumn. 



Having been in Scotland lately, I brought back 

 some ferns and plants of common heather, white 

 heather, and bell heather, which I have had plant- 

 ed with a little of their own native peat in my 

 apology for a rockery, where I hope they may 

 thrive, although the conditions are so different 

 from those by which they have hitherto been sur- 

 rounded. In my host's garden in North Britain 

 everything, except perhaps the roses, seemed to 

 luxuriate in the rich, moist soil which rested upon 

 a substratum of pure peat. How I wished I could 

 transfer a whole trainload of it to my garden! 

 When one jumped upon the garden path the oil 

 vibrated for some distance round over its opulent 

 and elastic bed. 



