112 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 



Jacoby is especially good. They are kept on in the 

 greenhouse from year to year, their roots tied up in moss 

 and crowded into a pot or box with no earth and very 

 little water through the winter ; early in April they are 

 potted-up and protected by mats in a pit, as we have no 

 room for them in the greenhouse. This causes them to 

 be somewhat pot-bound, and they flower brilliantly during 

 the latter part of the summer. French Marguerites (the 

 yellow and the white) with large leaves are good pot-plants 

 early in the year — far prettier than the narrow-leaved 

 kinds. A double Pomegranate I have had for many 

 years in a pot; and if pruned out in the summer, it 

 flowers well. The large, old-fashioned, oak-leaved, sticky 

 Cape Sweet Geranium, which has a handsomer flower 

 than the other kinds, makes a very good outdoor pot-plant. 

 In potting-up strong, growing plants that are to remain in 

 the pots for some time, it is useful to put some broken-up 

 bones with the crocks at the bottom of the pots for the 

 roots to cling to them. 



Fuchsias, especially the old-fashioned fulgens, are 

 satisfactory. Carnations — Eaby Castle, Countess of Paris, 

 and Mrs. Eeynolds Hole — I grow in pots, and they do 

 extremely well ; they must be layered early in July, and 

 answer best if potted up in September and just protected 

 from severe frosts. This year we took up a large clump of 

 Montbretias out of a dry simny bed of Cape bulbs in the 

 kitchen garden, just as they were coming through the 

 ground, and dropped them into a large Sea-kale pot. 

 They flowered exceedingly well, and in September we 

 put them back in the dry border to die down. In fine 

 summers Myrtles and Oleanders flower well with us in 

 tubs, not in the open ground. We treat Oleanders as 

 they do in Germany — cut them back moderately in October, 

 and dry them off, keeping them in a coach-house, warm 

 shed, or wherever severe frosts will not reach them. 



