OCTOBER 



Gardening — Echeverias — Ignorance about bulbs — G-ossamer time 

 and insects — The East Coast — A new rockery — Oxalis flori- 

 hunda 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 smok- 

 ing- 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 Hcheveria 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 pur- 

 ples, 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 



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