46 MORE POT-POURRI 



OCTOBER 



Gardening Echeverias Ignorance about bulbs Gossamer time and 

 insects The East Coast A new rockery Oxalis floribunda as 

 a vegetable Previous ' Pot-Pourris ' Cooking receipts, various 

 Journey to Frankfort in 1897 Cronberg Boecklin's Todten- 

 Insel Jewish Cemetery Goethe's house Staedal Art Institute 

 German treatment of tuberculosis. 



October 5th. -The other day I was going round the 

 garden, giving away plants, when I came to a bed where 

 there were several fine Echeverias. They had been 

 planted out to grow naturally into better plants. I 

 offered my friend some, but she said with a shudder : 

 ' What ! those artichoke-looking things ? No, thank you ' 

 I think the dislike of these plants arises very likely from 

 their having been used so much in those old-fashioned 

 beds arranged in fancy designs as ugly and incongruous 

 as the patterns on a Turkish smoking- cap. 



These plants are not only kind friends that give little 

 trouble, and can be grown in pots and allowed to assume 

 their natural growth, but they are also exceedingly 

 beautiful I have an Echeveria metallica crispa grown to 

 a large plant in a pot. It has been perhaps retarded in its 

 growth by dryness this summer, and is now throwing up 

 a fine pink flower-spike. The whole tone of the plant is 

 lovely to a degree, shot with pale purples, grays, and 

 pinks, and as full of drawing as the cone of an Italian 

 pine The thick stem is beautifully marked by the leaves 

 as they have dried up and fallen away. The plant is 

 altogether very picturesque in its quaint growth, and 



