I have a friend who to-day writes she is having iron rings driven into an old stone house round the windows so as to hold pots of Carnations and Geraniums, to hang down as they do in Tyrol and Switzerland. This will look pretty, no doubt, if it answers; but in our cold and windy summers I am sure they would do better if one pot were sunk inside another with some moss between, so that the evaporation caused by the wind, which freezes the roots, should not be so great. Abroad the pots are frequently glazed either all the way down or part of the way down; this stops evaporation. So many greenhouse plants, when they are 'stood out,' as the gardeners say, get injured by the cold winds on the pots, which does far more harm than the wind on the leaves. One of the best and simplest remedies is to dig moderately deep trenches with a raised border round them of turf or boards, and stand the pots in these, instead of on the open ground. Sheets of corrugated iron cut to convenient sizes make excellent movable shelters for plants from the north-east wind. Shelter in all forms, without taking too much out of the soil, as trees and shrubs do, is the great secret of success in all kinds of gardening. I should spend my life in inventing shelters if I lived on the East Coast; but I confess that temporary protections are not very pretty. Another good method of obtaining shelter is to use common hurdles of iron or wood, or flat laths with Gorse or Bracken twisted into them. When all your hand-lights are in use in Spring, a good deal of protection from frost may be given to the seed beds by sheets of newspaper held down by a stone or two; muslin sewn over a zinc wire-coop will keep out six or seven degrees of frost. Dried Bracken spread over frames is even better for keeping out frost than matting, and is nearly as easily removed.