NOVEMBER 91 



tory. Whether there are ten plants of one kind, or only 

 two, they are placed together ; and if there are different 

 plants more or less of one colour, they too are massed to- 

 gether. I think this makes the most immense difference 

 in the pleasure to be got out of a greenhouse, and increases 

 the colour-value of everything grown in it, as the power 

 of one plant to kill or injure the colour of another is far 

 more felt in a greenhouse than even in the open border. 

 I have, now flowering, my usual number of the protected 

 Chrysanthemums. They are less good than last year, the 

 wet June and dry August not having suited them. Last 

 year the hardy early outdoor Chrysanthemums were very 

 good indeed ; this year the season has been even harder 

 on them than on the pot-plants. All the same they should 

 be very much grown in all gardens. They transplant 

 quite easily from the reserve garden at any time from 

 August onwards. I have yellow, orange, pink, white, 

 dark red, and a very dark yellow, which seems to last the 

 longest and be the hardiest. Some few cottage gardens 

 have better varieties than I can boast. The great secret for 

 the late-flowering hardy Chrysanthemums is to get them 

 against walls and, still better, under the protection of 

 shrubs. Many of the greenhouse Chrysanthemums will also 

 flower perfectly out of doors, if only planted late in the 

 summer under shrubs, as I have just said. In this way they 

 get a natural protection on cold nights. The last two years 

 I have grown for the greenhouse, in pots, a Michaelmas 

 Daisy that is new to me, called Aster grandiflora. It has 

 a stiff, pretty growth, and is quite hardy ; but it flowers so 

 late that it does not come to perfection out of doors. It 

 looks very well under glass in front of a group of white 

 Chrysanthemums. The flowers are as large as Aster 

 amellus, and of the same colour, which is so different in 

 tone from that of any of the Chrysanthemums. It reminds 

 me a little of Stokesia cyanea, which I used to grow in the 



