SEPTEMBER 37 



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 25th. — I saw a Suffolk garden this Septem- 

 ber, 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 suflSciently 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 around, covering the 

 tubs almost entirely. The tubs were painted white, and 

 the gardener told me that instead of putting them into 

 any house or shed in winter he put them under very 

 thick shrubs. In his case he was fortunate to have an 

 Ilex grove. Nothing was cut off the Hydrangeas but the 

 faded flowers. By this means they get the damp and 

 cold, which only strengthen them in their resting state. 

 In the spring he cuts out the dead wood, mulches and 

 copiously waters them when they begin to grow, and the 

 result was certainly most satisfactory. Hydrangeas 

 strike very easily in spring ; and small young plants, 

 especially if white or blue — which the pink ones will 

 often turn to if planted in peat — make useful small dec- 

 orative plants in a greenhouse or for late flowering. 

 The tubs of Cape Agapanthus were less fine in foliage 

 than mine are; but they had spike upon spike of bloom, 

 which is really what one wants. He treated these in the 



