None of the small cheap bulbs are better worth growing than the Alliums, white and yellow. They increase themselves rapidly, and are quite hardy, though the white ones force well and are useful. People object to them because the stalks smell of garlic at the time of picking, but it goes off as soon as they are put into water; and the flowers are lovely, delicate, and useful, and have the great merit I mention so often of remaining a long time fresh in water. We leave some of the bulbs in the ground, and take up others. Those that are taken up and dried in the sun flower best the following year; and the finest bulbs can be planted together, the yellow making a fine splotch of colour just as the yellow Alyssum is over. The smaller the garden, the more essential it is to get a succession in colour. Avoid many white flowers in small gardens; in roomy gardens with shady corners nothing looks better than the common single white and purple Rocket, raised from seed and planted in bold groups. It will grow in very dry places, but it soon gets untidy, and has to be cut back, which it does not seem to mind at all.

Tiarella cordifolia ('Foam-flower,' Mr. Robinson calls it) is a little Canadian plant which ought never to be left out of any garden.