42 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 



to recognise. Try "Whitings sometimes as they are eaten 

 in Paris — lay them flat, not curled nor skinned, and cook 

 them in a deep dish with butter or parsley. Squeeze 

 lemon into them, and serve with brown bread and butter. 

 They can also be fried in the usual way, only not curled. 

 I think your male kind wiU approve of the change. 



March 16th. — I find that this is the best time for 

 sowing annuals that have to be sown in place. If sown 

 later, they never do so well. Poppies, Love-in-the-Mist, 

 Mignonette, Sweet Sultans, Bartonia aurea, etc. This 

 latter is a very effective annual. It must be sown in a 

 large clump and well thinned out, which is the secret of 

 most annuals. Twice a year, about March 15th and 

 September 15th, I sow together broadcast Love-in-the- 

 Mist and Gypsophila gracilis. They seem to support 

 each other, and fixing a day for the sowing prevents one 

 from forgetting. 



In the old convent gardens Calvary Clover was sup- 

 posed not to grow unless sown on Good Ib:iday. It is 

 a curious Kttle annual, with a blood-red spot on each leaf, 

 and the seed-pod is surrounded by a case which puUs 

 out, or rather unwinds, into a miniature crown of thorns. 

 A friend has asked me what she should plant on the 

 front of a lovely old house facing south. It now has on 

 it at one end Ivy and on the other an old "Wistaria. My 

 first advice is take away the Ivy ; the place is too good for 

 it, and it hides the beautiful old brickwork. An old 

 "Wistaria is quite lovely if part or all of it is dragged away 

 from the house and trained over wooden posts, either in 

 front of a window or a door, so as to form a kind of 

 pergola. Until this is done, or it is grown as they do 

 it in Japan — namely, as a standard, with its branches 

 spread and supported all around, and you stand beneath 

 it — you have no idea of the joy that is to be got out of a 

 "Wistaria, with its beautiful lilac blooms hanging from the 



