We returned home last night. At this time of year how a week or ten days changes the growth in one's garden ! I must confess that sometimes, coming home after dark, I have taken a hand-candle to inspect some special favourite.

Buddleia globosa is well worth growing, even in a small garden. It has many merits besides its golden balls, which so charmed Mr. Bright, and which here, at any rate, I think rather disappointing. The growth is lovely; and the tone of the green unusual, mixing well with many summer flowers. It lasts a long time in water in the hottest weather. The more you cut it, the better it seems to do. It was killed to the ground in the cold winter of '94-95, but broke up from the roots as strong as ever. Some plants do this; others never recover. The shrubby Veronicas never do break up from the roots here. My large Arbutus, killed the same winter, threw up a few shoots, but never did any good, and died the next year. I think the shrubby Veronicas so well worth growing that I have five or six varieties; and as they are not quite hardy, I keep pots of cuttings every winter. This we do also with three or four nominally hardy Cistuses, though they are a little more difficult to strike. Helianthemums or Rock-roses are well worth growing from seed in a sunny dry situation. I know nothing more charming than these delicate, bright-flowered little plants blazing and blinking in the sunshine. I have a double-flowered scarlet Rock-rose, not figured in any of my books, and which I have rarely seen in gardens. It flowers persistently for many months.