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re-potted in the autumn. They are hardy, and will grow 

 out of doors, but the blooms do not then reach to such 

 perfection. There is a large box fiUed with the last of 

 the NeapoHtan Violets and a pan of Saxifraga wallacei, 

 one of the most effective of the smaller Saxifrages. I 

 never succeeded with it out of doors till I divided it in 

 June, planting it in the shade, and in October I replaced 

 it in the sunny bed for spring flowering. In that way 

 it can be increased to any amount. This treatment I 

 pursue with many plants : — Heuchera, sanguinea, one of 

 the most precious of the Canadian flowers, and the 

 best worth cultivating, especially in small gardens. The 

 pretty Saxifraga granulata flare plena disappeared year 

 after year till treated more or less in this way. In June, 

 when the leaves die down, the little bulblets are taken up 

 and planted in groups in a shady place. They make 

 their leaves in October, when it is easy to move them 

 back into the border or onto the rockery where they are 

 to flower. The double flower is of a very pure white, 

 and its long stalk adapts it weU for glass vases and table 

 decoration. The large sweet-smelling double white 

 Eocket, which I mentioned before as growing so well in 

 the damp Hertfordshire garden, defeated me altogether 

 for some years ; it made a fair growth of leaves, but never 

 flowered. Now it succeeds perfectly. After flowering, we 

 break it up, put it into a shady place, and replant it in 

 the borders in the autumn. All this sounds very trouble- 

 some, but it is really not so at all, as it is so quickly done. 

 The only trouble is remembering when to do the things ; 

 but that soon comes with practice, and the time of year 

 always recalls what was done the year before to the true 

 gardener. Everybody recognises this treatment as 

 necessary for violets, double and single — which, indeed, 

 do not flower well without it. The invaluable Imanto- 

 phyUums, which began to flower in the warm greenhouse 



