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means that Mulberry-trees should be much more grown 

 than they are, not only because they are beautiful and 

 useful, but because of this late budding. The fruit is ex- 

 cellent cooked with Apples, even if it is not quite ripe. 

 Sweet Spanish Chestnuts are also very late trees in spring. 



Sweet-scented Geraniums cut back in the spring do 

 best for autumn and winter. For planting out the next 

 year they should be cut back hard, like show Pelargoniums, 

 at the end of September. 



My trees of Magnolia grandiflora, though still small, 

 are covered this year with their beautiful flowers. These 

 are, I am sure, best always cut off. It only strengthens 

 the trees for forming flower-buds next year. 



September 15th. For those who care to have Sweet- 

 peas early in the year, it is well to sow them now in the 

 drills or holes, so as to earth them up a little after they 

 come through the soil. 



Cassia corymbosa is a yellow greenhouse plant now in 

 flower and very useful. It is so nearly hardy that it will 

 grow, like the blue Plumbago, against a south wall in the 

 summer months. It comes from Buenos Ayres, and won't 

 stand any frost. 



September %5th.I saw a Suffolk garden this September 

 where I learnt more in an hour than one would do in 

 most places in a week. It was a beautiful, stately, flat 

 garden and on a very large scale, with tall trees and broad 

 expanses of lawn, which, in spite of my opinion stated 

 before, and which angered so many of my readers (about 

 overdoing grass in small places), I do immensely admire 

 when sufficiently spacious and with spreading timber 

 feathering to the ground. I saw in this garden the finest 

 tubs of Hydrangeas I have ever seen anywhere. They 

 were much raised above the ground, on a half-tub reversed 

 or on bricks, so that the plants, which had been left alone 

 for many years, fell all round, covering the tubs almost 



