All the Linums and Linarias (see Mr. Robinson's book) are useful for house and table decoration, and are very suitable for small gardens. The common blue Flax is a lovely thing; so is the white French Willow-weed (Epilobium), which is most useful, and flowers earlier in the year than the common lilac one.

As a single plant, for beauty of growth and foliage there are few things as lovely as the common Hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). It is an annual, easily grown in April in a pot or box, and planted out.

In gardening, as in most things, it is thought that is really required, and that wonderful thing which is called 'a blind god'-love. But blind love is mere passion. Real love in every form, even towards animals and plants, is watchful and ever seeing, never missing for a moment what is for the good and the advantage of the beloved. In walking round and round the garden, with a practised eye one soon sees when a plant is getting on well or the contrary. When a plant is doing badly, it means the conditions are unfavourable, and it is then our duty to find out why. In my garden the usual cause of failure is dryness, and many and many a plant has been saved, since I understood this, by a timely mulching or a good can of water. When things are coming into flower, especially early Alpines, Gentians, etc., it is quite safe to water, even in cold weather, early in the year. Do they not flourish where the ice-water drips upon them from the first melting of the snows under the spring sun ? Early spring plants do badly in our soil; but were I there, to watch and to water just at the right time, I feel sure they would look more flourishing.

A most beautiful light sprayer for watering small plants is easily made in the following way:-Take a piece of sheet zinc five or six inches long and four or five inches wide. Cut a piece half an inch wide on each side of the zinc to within an inch of the middle, so making a little band attached to the main piece, and fold this tightly round the spout of the watering-pot; bend the zinc sprayer upwards in the middle in a way to enable the water from the pot to flow over it in a continuous sheet.

Sorrel is a vegetable seldom grown in English gardens, and still seldomer properly dressed by English cooks, and yet it is excellent, either cut up in the white soup called 'Bonne femme,' dressed like Spinach, or puree'd as thin as a thick sauce. With veal, cooked in all ways, it is especially good. When the summer gets on and it is old, it is desirable to add a little Lettuce with it to soften it, as it gets too sour. It is one of those vegetables never quite so good in towns, as it is best freshly picked, and if faded should be revived in water before cooking. The receipts for cooking it in 'Dainty Dishes' are quite right.

For those who keep cows, or who can have plenty of good fresh cream, the following, I think, will be found a really excellent pudding:Creme Brulee.-Boil one pint of cream for one minute, pour it on the yelks of four very fresh eggs well beaten, then put it again on the fire and let it just come to the boil. Pour it into the dish in which it is to be served, and let it get cold. Strew a thick crust of powdered sugar over it, put it in a slow oven for ten minutes, then brown it with a salamander, and serve it cold.