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quaint growth, and admirably adapted for a room or win- 

 dowsill in late autumn, and reminds one of the corner of 

 a Dutch picture. The Echeverias and Cotyledons are 

 closely allied (natural order Grassulacece) , and there are 

 many varieties of these plants, all requiring much the 

 same treatment — protection and very little watering in 

 winter, but otherwise next to no care. They can be 

 increased easily by cuttings at any time, starved and 

 re-potted at will, which alters their flowering -time. 

 JThey wUl grow in china pots, with only a few stones for 

 drainage; or will hang out of Japanese vases, suspended 

 by wires, containing hardly any earth. A large earth- 

 enware pan of the ordinary Echeveria glauca is a very 

 pretty sight in summer, and does well in a north win- 

 dow. It can be planted with a little peat, charcoal, and 

 a few stones. 



I never knew till this year that Marvels of Peru can 

 be kept, like Dahlias, free from frost and started the 

 following spring, when they make much handsomer 

 plants than if grown each year from seed. In gardens 

 where you are pressed for room — and where is it 

 that you are not ? — it is an excellent plan to make a 

 hole in the ground, put some straw at the bottom, 

 and lay in Geraniums, Dahlias, Marvels of Peru, and 

 many other half-hardy things, cover them with straw, 

 and earth up just as you would potatoes or mangolds 

 in a field. 



October 10th. — It is extraordinary how vague are 

 people's ideas about plants, bulbs, etc. ; and it is not till 

 one is asked questions that one realises how much most 

 people have to learn. I was asked the other day by a 

 friend, who had had a lot of Narcissus bulbs given her, 

 if she might plant them in a Tea-rose bed ! That is the 

 last place where they ought to be put, as, if planted in 

 too rich a soil, they all go to leaf and flower badly; and 



